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)
• Beds 47a-66
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and lime mudstone
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 38294: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.04.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Rugosa indet. horn coral | |
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral | |
Coleolidae | |
Coleolidae indet. Fisher 1962 | |
Cephalopoda | |
? Clymeniina indet. Hyatt 1884 ammonite | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Euomphalidae "sp. 1" White 1877 snail
Euomphalidae "sp. 2" White 1877 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten "sp. 3" M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Streblochondria piltonensis scallop | |
"Pectinacea indet." = Pectinoidea
"Pectinacea indet." = Pectinoidea Rafinesque 1815 scallop | |
Sanguinolites "sp. 2" M'Coy 1844 clam | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Brachiopoda | |
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Strophomenata | |
Schuchertella "sp. 2 aff. radialis" Girty 1904 | |
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836 | |
Productellidae indet. Schuchert 1929
Krotovia sp. Fredericks 1928 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Crurithyris urei Fleming 1828 | |
? Cranaena sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Polychaeta | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Ostracoda | |
Amphissitidae indet. Knight 1928 ostracod | |
Kirkbya sp. Jones 1859 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Omegops sp. Struve 1976 trilobite | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Platycrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Blastoidea | |
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid | |
unclassified | |
Echinoidea | |
? Polytaxicidaris sp. sea urchin
? Archaeocidaris sp. M'Coy 1844 sea urchin | |
Hyattechinus sp. Jackson 1912 sea urchin |