Hiddensee Island, Borehole Rügen 2, unit 5, NE Germany (Carboniferous of Germany)

Where: Germany (54.6° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° S, 8.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Chadian (345.3 - 345.0 Ma)

• basal part of unit 5; lowermost Chadian or uppermost Ivorian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: D. Weyer. 1993. Korallen aus dem Obertournai und Untervisé der Inseln Hiddensee und Rügen [Upper Tournaisian and Lower Visean corals from Hiddensee and Rügen islands]. Abhandlungen und Berichte für Naturkunde 16:31-69 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64670: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
? Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Drewerelasma sp. n. sp. horn coral
sp. A
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula" sp. Bruguiére 1797
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Anthraconeilo sp. Girty 1912 clam
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865 scallop
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Pericyclidae
? Pericyclus sp. Mojsisovics 1882 ammonite