Hasbergen Excavation Planum II (Permian of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 16.1° N, 20.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Kupferschiefer Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified, carbonaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: quarrying

• The excavation and documentation of the Kupferschiefer described here is based on an earlier unpublished prospective excavation first done in March 2004, with another following in July 2005; just one month in total was excavated. The data collected and the total excavation material is the property of the Kultur-und Verkehrsverein Hasbergen e.V. and is newly stored and partly accessible in the Geozentrum Hasbergen in a part of the old Hotel Gasthof Schierke. Part of the material is prepared and on open display in the Permisches Blaue Ozean Besucherzentrum (“Permian Blue Ocean Visitor Center”) of that hotel, and is combined with the (Geopark) Hüggel-Geotrail.

Primary reference: C. G. Diedrich. 2009. A coelacanthid-rich site at Hasbergen (NW Germany): taphonomy and palaeoenvironment of a first systematic excavation in the Kupferschiefer (Upper Permian, Lopingian). Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 89:67-94 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130276: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 06.07.2012, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Liroceratidae
Peripetoceras freieslebeni Geinitz 1843 nautiloid
 Nautilida -
"Nautilus seebachianus" = Pteronautilus seebachianus
"Nautilus seebachianus" = Pteronautilus seebachianus Geinitz 1861 nautiloid
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Bakevellia sp. King 1848 oyster
Chondrichthyes
 Ctenacanthiformes -
Wodnika striatula Münster 1843 elasmobranch
Actinopteri
 Semionotiformes - Semionotidae
"Acentrophorus glaphyurus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus
"Acentrophorus glaphyurus" = Acentrophorus glaphyrus Agassiz 1835
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Eurysomus macrurus Agassiz 1833
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Palaeoniscum freieslebeni Blainville 1818