Autobahnknoten Langenhorst Bed 30 (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 16.8° S, 5.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale and lime mudstone

• Section consists of sandstones, siltstones, shales, calcareous shales, some interbedded micrites, and oolitic micrites near the top (starting at about bed 74). Lowest micrite is at about bed 40. This bed is shale.

Primary reference: D. Michels. 1986. Oekologie und Fazies des juengsten Ober-Devon von Velbert (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Goettinger Arbeiten zur Geologie und Palaeontologie 29:1-86 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38273: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

• I am excluding bivalves for beds A1/2 to C3 (bed complex 71), which are dealt with in collection 38266.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Omegops sp. Struve 1976 trilobite
Craniata
 Craniida - Craniidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris urei Fleming 1828
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Centrorhynchus letiensis" = Sartenaerus
"Centrorhynchus letiensis" = Sartenaerus
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
unclassified
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