Sahlgrund Mine, Oberscheld (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.7° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 8.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, red ironstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collected by Kegel; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: J. Bockwinkel, D. Korn, V. Ebbighausen and S. Graf. 2013. Late Givetian ammonoids from Hagen-Herbeck, Donnerkuhle quarry (Devonian, Rhenish Mountains). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 270:257-274 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 189320: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 10.10.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Pharciceratidae
Pharciceras oberscheldense n. sp. Bockwinkel and Korn 2013 ammonite