Doberlug well, section 1706/81, bioherm, Germany (Cambrian of Germany)

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

• Calcimicrobe-archaecyath bioherm

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
 Phyllopoda -
Diplostraca indet. branchiopod
Trilobita
  -
Trilobita indet. Walch 1771 trilobite
Archaeocyatha
 Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Protopharetra gemmata archaeocyath sponge
Protopharetra dissuta archaeocyath sponge
 Archaeocyathida - Dictyocyathidae
Dictyocyathus stipatus archaeocyath sponge
 Ajacicyathida - Asterocyathidae
Erismacoscinus tainius archaeocyath sponge
Botomaella
  -
Botomaella sp. Korde 1958
Renalcis
  - Chabakoviacea
Renalcis sp. Vologdin 1932
Hormogoneae
 Oscillatoriales - Girvanellaceae
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
Epiphyton
  - Ludloviaceae
Epiphyton sp. Bornemann 1886
Kordephyton
  -
Kordephyton sp. Radugin and Strepanova 1964
Proaulopora
  -
Proaulopora sp. Vologdin 1962