Where: Rhenish Massif, Germany (51.0° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 6.2° E)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Early/Lower Famennian (376.1 - 370.6 Ma)
• beds referred to in text as "Knoppenbiessen-beds"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; carbonaceous shale and limestone
Collection methods: the information concerning this collection is based on an English summary provided at the beginning of the German-text reference
Primary reference: U. Jux and J. Krath. 1974. Die Fauna aus dem mittleren Oberdevon (Nehden-Stufe) des suedwestlichen Bergischen Landes (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge); The lower Famennian fauna (Nehden-substage) of the southwestern region of the Bergisches Land (Rhenish Schiefergebirge). Palaeontographica Abteilung A 147(4-6):115-168 [A. Miller/K. Layou/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5960: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 06.01.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gastropoda | |
Euryzone sp. Koken 1896 snail | |
"? Loxonema prisca" = Mesocoelia priscum
"? Loxonema prisca" = Mesocoelia priscum Münster 1840 snail | |
Naticopsis dannenbergi snail | |
Platyostoma aff. lineata Conrad 1842 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Loxopteria dispar Sandberger and Sandberger 1856 clam | |
Buchiola postuma, Buchiola palmata, "Praecardium clymeniae" = Vetupraeca clymeniae, "Praecardium vetustum" = Vetupraeca vetusta, Euthydesma beyrichi
Buchiola postuma clam
Buchiola palmata clam
"Praecardium clymeniae" = Vetupraeca clymeniae Beushausen 1895 clam
"Praecardium vetustum" = Vetupraeca vetusta Hall 1843 clam
Euthydesma beyrichi Holzapfel 1882 clam | |
Mytilarca cf. kochi clam | |
? Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster
Leptodesma bodana oyster | |
Posidonia venusta oyster | |
Kochia rugosa oyster | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Rutoceras sp. Hyatt 1884 nautiloid | |
"Cheiloceras ovatum" = Puncticeras ovatus, "Cheiloceras lagowiense" = Puncticeras lagowiense, "Cheiloceras verneuili" = Nehdenites verneuilii, "Cheiloceras curvispina" = Staffites curvispinus, Cheiloceras planilobum, Cheiloceras circumflexum, Cheiloceras acutum, Cheiloceras oxyacantha, Cheiloceras globosum, Cheiloceras nehdense, Cheiloceras sacculum, "Cheiloceras amblylobum" = Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum, "Cheiloceras subpartitum" = Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) subpartitum
"Cheiloceras ovatum" = Puncticeras ovatus Munster 1832 ammonite
"Cheiloceras lagowiense" = Puncticeras lagowiense Gurich 1900 ammonite
"Cheiloceras verneuili" = Nehdenites verneuilii Munster 1839 ammonite
"Cheiloceras curvispina" = Staffites curvispinus Sandberger and Sandberger 1850 ammonite
Cheiloceras planilobum ammonite
Cheiloceras circumflexum ammonite
Cheiloceras acutum ammonite
Cheiloceras oxyacantha ammonite
Cheiloceras globosum ammonite
Cheiloceras nehdense ammonite
Cheiloceras sacculum Sandberger 1851 ammonite
"Cheiloceras amblylobum" = Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) amblylobum Sandberger and Sandberger 1851 ammonite
"Cheiloceras subpartitum" = Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) subpartitum Munster 1839 ammonite | |
"Lobotornoceras nehdense" = Exotornoceras superstes
"Lobotornoceras nehdense" = Exotornoceras superstes Wedekind 1908 ammonite | |
Lobotornoceras bilobatum, Tornoceras subundulatum, Tornoceras eifliense, Tornoceras simplex, "Tornoceras acutum" = Oxytornoceras acutum, "Tornoceras haugi" = Linguatornoceras haugi, "Tornoceras loeschmanni" = Linguatornoceras guestfalicum, "? Tornoceras escoti" = Gundolficeras escoti, "Tornoceras planidorsatum" = Armatites planidorsatus
Lobotornoceras bilobatum ammonite
Tornoceras subundulatum ammonite
Tornoceras eifliense ammonite
Tornoceras simplex von Buch 1832 ammonite
"Tornoceras acutum" = Oxytornoceras acutum Frech 1902 ammonite
"Tornoceras haugi" = Linguatornoceras haugi Frech 1902 ammonite
"Tornoceras loeschmanni" = Linguatornoceras guestfalicum Frech 1897 ammonite
"? Tornoceras escoti" = Gundolficeras escoti Frech 1887 ammonite
"Tornoceras planidorsatum" = Armatites planidorsatus Munster 1839 ammonite | |
Crickites holzapfeli Wedekind 1913 ammonite | |
? Sphaerorthoceras sp. Ristedt 1968 | |
Ormoceras sp. Stokes 1840 | |
Pseudorthoceras sp. Girty 1912 | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingulipora sp. Girty 1898 | |
Euchelicerata | |
? Pterygotus sp. Agassiz 1839 eurypterid |