Geipel quarry, Schleiz (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.6° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 26.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Frasnian (379.5 - 376.1 Ma)

• upper rhenana or linguiformis conodont zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

• grey limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Primary reference: D. Korn, J. Bockwinkel, V. Ebbighausen and S. A. Walton. 2011. Beloceras, the most multilobate Late Devonian ammonoid. Bulletin of Geosciences 86(1):1-28 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135675: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 01.11.2012

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Beloceratidae
Beloceras sagittarium Sandberger and Sandberger 1851 ammonite