Autobahnknoten Langenhorst Bed 53 (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; lime mudstone and shale
• 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 micrite.
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 38279: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• I am excluding bivalves for beds A1/2 to C3 (bed complex 71), which are dealt with in collection 38266.
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Conodonta | |
Bispathodus costatus conodont |