Also known as Reef 2723
Where: Brandenburg, Germany (51.6° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° S, 106.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Torgau Member (Zwethau Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)
• Based on trilobites and archaeocyaths (Elicki 1994)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bindstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
• Well data only
Primary reference: O. Elicki. 1999. Palaeoecological significance of calcimicrobial communities during ramp evolution: an example from the Lower Cambrian of Germany. Facies 41:27-40 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24190: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 02.08.2002, edited by Sabine Nürnberg
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Hyolitha | |
Branchiopoda | |
Diplostraca indet. branchiopod | |
Trilobita | |
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite | |
Archaeocyatha | |
Protopharetra gemmata archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra dissuta archaeocyath sponge | |
Dictyocyathus stipatus archaeocyath sponge | |
Erismacoscinus tainius archaeocyath sponge | |
Botomaella | |
Botomaella sp. Korde 1958 | |
Renalcis | |
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932 | |
Hormogoneae | |
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878 | |
Epiphyton | |
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886 | |
Kordephyton | |
Kordephyton sp. Radugin and Strepanova 1964 | |
Proaulopora | |
Proaulopora sp. Vologdin 1962 |