Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.3° N, 6.9° E: paleocoordinates 16.9° S, 5.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Famennian (372.2 - 358.9 Ma)
• Etroeungt part of Famennian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone
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 38327: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 20.04.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 | |
Echinoidea | |
Hyattechinus sp. Jackson 1912 sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Platycrinites sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Blastoidea | |
Blastoidea indet. Say 1825 blastoid | |
Brachiopoda | |
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805 | |
Craniata | |
Strophomenata | |
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836 | |
Schuchertella aff. radialis Phillips 1836 | |
""Orthothetes" wunstorfi" = Orthotetes
""Orthothetes" wunstorfi" = Orthotetes | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cyrtina sp. Davidson 1858 | |
Spiriferidae indet. King 1846 | |
Crurithyris urei Fleming 1828 | |
"Centrorhynchus letiensis" = Sartenaerus
? Ptychomaletoechia "sp. 1" Sartenaer 1961 | |
Athyris concentrica von Buch 1834 | |
Schizophoria resupinata Martin 1809 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Buchiola sp. Barrande 1881 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Euomphalidae sp. 2 White 1877 snail | |
? Platyceras sp. Conrad 1840 snail | |
Polychaeta | |
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800 | |
Deuteropoda | |
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Omegops sp. Struve 1976 trilobite | |
Anthozoa | |
Cladochonus sp. M'Coy 1847 tabulate coral | |
Coleolidae | |
Coleolidae indet. Fisher 1962 |