Where: Alken, Germany (50.3° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.7° S, 9.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Emsian (409.1 - 402.5 Ma)

• plants present in different horizons.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; argillaceous shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, mechanical,

Primary reference: R. Kraeusel and H. Weyland. 1962. Algen und Psilophyten aus dem Unterdevon von Alken an der Mosel. Senckenbergiana Lethaea 43(4):249-282 [P. Gensel/C. Bernard/C. Bernard] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26999: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Caroline Bernard on 11.11.2002