Where: Germany (50.2° N, 11.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 61.1° S, 6.2° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Galgenberg Member (Tannenknock Formation), Undillan (503.0 - 500.5 Ma)
• middle Middle Cambrian (middle Celtiberian Series)
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; cherty/siliceous shale and sandstone
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: G. Geyer. 2017. Trilobites of the Galgenberg Member (Tannenknock Formation), middle Cambrian Stage 5, Franconian Forest, Germany: a paradigmatic lowermost middle Cambrian West Gondwanan fauna. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 91:5-70 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186167: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 16.06.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Artiopoda | |
? Acadoparadoxides "sp. A" Green 1834 trilobite | |
Kingaspidoides frankenwaldensis Wurm 1925 trilobite
Kingaspidoides alberti Geyer 2017 trilobite
Kingaspidoides meieri Geyer 2017 trilobite | |
Parasolenopleura parabolica Geyer 2017 trilobite
Parasolenopleura wurmi Geyer 2017 trilobite |