Weltersberg Horizon of Eifelian Hills, Germany, Vallendar substage Devonian (Devonian of Germany)
Where: Eifel, Germany (50.0° N, 7.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.1° S, 9.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Gladbach Formation, Emsian (409.1 - 391.9 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; gray, green siltstone and sandstone
• "greenish-gray siltstone and often ripple-bedded, greenish-gray finegrained sandstone, often in compact successions. In the upper part an acid ash layer is intercalated."
Collection methods: "This horizon contains a particularly diverse fauna in few fossil layers."
Primary reference: G. Fuchs. 1982. Upper Siegenian and Lower Emsian in the Eifel Hills. CFS. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 55:229-255 [A. Miller/J. Sessa/J. Sessa] more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 24694: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Jocelyn Sessa on 17.08.2002