Autobahnknoten Langenhorst A-beds (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)

• Beds 47a-66

• group of beds-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. These beds include shales and micrites.

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

• I am excluding bivalves for beds A1/2 to C3 (bed complex 71), which are dealt with in collection 38266.
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral
Coleolidae
  - Coleolidae
Coleolidae indet. Fisher 1962
Cephalopoda
 Clymeniida -
? Clymeniina indet. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalidae "sp. 1" White 1877 snail
Euomphalidae "sp. 2" White 1877 snail
Bivalvia
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten "sp. 3" M'Coy 1851 scallop
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
 Pectinida -
"Pectinacea indet." = Pectinoidea
"Pectinacea indet." = Pectinoidea Rafinesque 1815 scallop
 Cardiidia - Sanguinolitidae
Sanguinolites "sp. 2" M'Coy 1844 clam
  -
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
originally entered as "Brachipoda indet."
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Schuchertellidae
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Productida - Productellidae
Productellidae indet. Schuchert 1929
Krotovia sp. Fredericks 1928
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferinida - Punctospiriferidae
 Spiriferinida - Cyrtinidae
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris urei Fleming 1828
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
? Cranaena sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Amphissitidae
Amphissitidae indet. Knight 1928 ostracod
 Palaeocopida - Kirkbyidae
Kirkbya sp. Jones 1859 ostracod
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Omegops sp. Struve 1976 trilobite
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
Platycrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Blastoidea
  -
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid
unclassified
  -
Echinoidea
  - Archaeocidaridae
? Archaeocidaris sp. M'Coy 1844 sea urchin
  - Proterocidaridae
Hyattechinus sp. Jackson 1912 sea urchin