2: Bracht, Orthocrinus beds, Rhenish Massif, Germany (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.1° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 25.0° S, 9.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Orthocrinus Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)

• Upper Emsian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified siltstone and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: A. May. 2003. Die Fossilführung des Mitteldevons im Raum Attendorn-Olpe (West-Sauerland; Rechtsrheinisches Schiefergebirge) [Middle Devonian fossils of the Attendorn-Olpe area (western Sauerland; Rhenish Massif]. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 60:47-79 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60129: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.05.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
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Bivalvia indet.
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp.
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Crinoidea
 Cyathocrinida - Cupressocrinitidae
Cupressocrinites sp.
Cupressocrinites sp. Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp.
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Pleurodictyum sp.
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
? Alveolitidae indet.
? Alveolitidae indet. Duncan 1872 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites ? vermicularis
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
? Mesophyllum sp.
? Mesophyllum sp. Schlüter 1889 horn coral
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
? Hapsiphyllum sp.
? Hapsiphyllum sp. Simpson 1900 horn coral