Oetelshofen, Dornap, Germany (Devonian to of Germany)

Also known as Reef 1483

Where: Germany (51.2° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 7.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Massenkalk" Formation, Late/Upper Givetian to Late/Upper Givetian (388.1 - 382.4 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified bafflestone and lithified framestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Reef dominated by stromatoporoids. No brachiopods, rare molluscs. Gastropods more common than bivalves

Primary reference: D. Heidelberger and M.R.W. Amler. 2002. Devonian Gastropods from the Dornap "Massenkalk" complex (Bergisches Land, Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 76(2):317-329 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28047: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 22.01.2003, edited by Falko Reichel

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Nearly only gastropods described
unclassified
  -
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
"Stromatoporoidea" indet. stromatoporoid sponge
 Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Stromatopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 stromatoporoid sponge
 Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Actinostroma clathratum stromatoporoid sponge
Actinostroma sp. Nicholson 1886 stromatoporoid sponge
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge
Amphipora ramosa Phillips 1841 stromatoporoid sponge
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes verticillata stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Stringophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
"Neostringophyllum sp." = Acanthophyllum (Neostringophyllum) Wedekind 1922 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral
Disphyllum caespitosum Goldfuss 1826 horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites polymorphus tabulate coral
Favosites gracilis tabulate coral
Favosites goldfussi Lecompte 1939 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Striatopora sp. Hall 1851 tabulate coral
Thamnopora cervicornis tabulate coral
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites suborbicularis Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Macrochilina drozdzewski n. sp." = Bensbergia drozdzewski, Strobeus sp.
"Macrochilina drozdzewski n. sp." = Bensbergia drozdzewski Heidelberger and Amler 2002 snail
Strobeus sp. de Koninck 1881 snail
 Murchisoniina - Murchisoniidae
Murchisonia sp. d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841 snail
Murchisonia bilineata Dechen 1832 snail
Murchisonia dornapica n. sp. Heidelberger and Amler 2002 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Euryzone oetelshofensis n. sp., "Euryzone delphinuloides" = Euryzone delphinuloides, "Bembexia delphinuloides" = Euryzone delphinuloides
Euryzone oetelshofensis n. sp. snail
described as subspecies
"Euryzone delphinuloides" = Euryzone delphinuloides von Schlotheim 1820 snail
"Bembexia delphinuloides" = Euryzone delphinuloides von Schlotheim 1820 snail
 Neritoina - Plagiothyridae
Plagiothyra isekei n. sp. Heidelberger and Amler 2002 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Araeonema osterholzensis n. sp. Heidelberger and Amler 2002 snail
Philoxene cf. laevis d’Archiac and de Verneuil 1842 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
? Naticopsis aff. protogaea Goldfuss 1844 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
"Spirifer inflatus" = Crurithyris inflata
"Spirifer inflatus" = Crurithyris inflata Schnur 1853
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Gymnolaemata
 Cheilostomata - Reteporidae
Plagiopora sp. MacGillivray 1895