Autobahnknoten Langenhorst Bed 75i (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 5.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Strunian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal 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 oolitic 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 38283: 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.
Foraminifera
 Foraminifera -
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora cristata tabulate coral
Pisces
  -
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes
"Pisces indet." = Osteichthyes Huxley 1880 bony fish
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida - Polygnathidae