ammonites
"Steltenberg" Quarry, near Hohenlimburg (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Sauerland, Germany (51.3° N, 7.6° E: paleocoordinates 22.2° S, 7.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schwelm Formation, Givet (388.1 - 383.7 Ma)

• Called "Massenkalk", too. Stringocephalus zone

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Described in Koch (1990: Der Schwelmer Kalk, in Weider, W.K. ed. Klassische Fundstellen der Paläontologies 2:37-48, 242-243) & (1995: Fossilien aus dem Schwelmer Kalk. Gelsenkirchen).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Several museum collections

Primary reference: D. Heidelberger and L. Koch. 2005. Gastropoda from the Givetian “Massenkalk” of Schwelm and Hohenlimburg (Saureland, Rheinsiches Schiefergebirge, Germany). Geologica et Palaeontologica Sonderband 4:1-107 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 56160: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 14.11.2005