Where: Germany (51.4° N, 8.6° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 24.1° S, 8.3° W (Wright 2013)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Nehden Formation, Early/Lower Famennian (372.1 - 368.5 Ma)
• Lower Nehdenian of classic German chronostratigraphy, the “do IIα”, (Lower Cheiloceras-Stufe), UD II-D.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, pyritic, black, silty, calcareous shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collected in 2013
Primary reference: R. T. Becker, S. Hartenfels, S. Helling and G. Schreiber. 2016. The “Nehden Goniatite Shale” (lower Famennian, Brilon Reef Complex, NE Rhenish Massif). Münstersche Forschungen zur Geologie und Paläontologie 108:179-195 [W. Kiessling/M. Krause/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187054: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Torleyoceras oxycantha ammonite
Cheiloceras (Cheiloceras) subpartitum Munster 1839 ammonite ssp. subpartitum, ssp. subcostatum, ssp. evolutum
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