An der Loh Quarry (Devonian to of Germany)

Where: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (51.0° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 7.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oberer Plattenkalk Formation, Late/Upper Givetian to Late/Upper Givetian (380.2 - 382.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, carbonaceous limestone and black, calcareous shale

• “The Upper Plattenkalk Formation is composed of well-bedded or platy, dark coloured, bituminous limestones alternating with black calcareous shales. Skeletal grains are the most important constituent of the sediment while terrigenous components are usually below 3%.” (Hartkopf-Fröder 2004)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: NRM, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden

Primary reference: T. Ørvig. 1960. New Finds of Acanthodians, Arthrodires, Crossopterygians, Ganoids and Dipnoans in the Upper Middle Devonian Calcareous Flags (Oberer Plattenkalk) of the Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath Trough (Part 1). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 34(3):295-335 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 226078: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 16.06.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Placodermi
 Ptyctodontida - Ptyctodontidae
Ctenurella gladbachensis
Ctenurella gladbachensis Ørvig 1960 armour-plated fish
Chondrichthyes
 Ischnacanthida -
Atopacanthus sp.
Atopacanthus sp. Hussakof and Bryant 1920 spiny fish
Osteichthyes
 Osteolepidida - Osteolepididae
Osteolepididae indet.
Osteolepididae indet. Cope 1887 lobe-finned fish
 Dipteriformes - Dipteridae
? Dipterus sp.
? Dipterus sp. Sedgwick and Murchison 1828 lungfish
 Dipnoi -
? Ganorhynchus sp.
? Ganorhynchus sp. Traquair 1873 lungfish
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? Stegotrachelus sp.
? Stegotrachelus sp. Woodward and White 1926