Autobahnknoten Langenhorst Bed 75i (Devonian of Germany)
Where: Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany (51.3° N, 7.1° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° S, 5.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Strunian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal lime mudstone and shale
• 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. This bed is oolitic micrite.
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 38283: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 19.04.2004