Open AccessConodonta, Trilobita, and Anthozoa near the Late Frasnian Upper Kellwasser Event of the Geipel Quarry section in Schleiz, Thuringian Mountains (Germany)
Author(s) -
Weyer Dieter,
Feist Raimund,
Girard Catherine
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
fossil record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1860-1014
pISSN - 1435-1943
DOI - 10.1002/mmng.20030060104
Subject(s) - conodont , rugosa , paleontology , fauna , anthozoa , facies , section (typography) , geology , biology , biostratigraphy , ecology , oceanography , structural basin , coral reef , advertising , business
New recoveries of Trilobita, Anthozoa and Conodonta from the linguiformis Zone close to the Frasnian/Famennian boundary and Immediately preceding the Upper Kellwasser Event level at Schleiz (Thuringia) are investigated. The trilobites species are Harpes neogracilis Richter & Richter, 1924, Palpebralia cf. brecciae (Richter, 1913) and Acuticryphops acuticeps (Kayser, 1889), the latter is represented by several morphs with different numbers of eye‐lenses; the trend to eye‐reduction is discussed. The Rugosa fauna that was nearly unknown from the psychrospheric facies worldwide, comprise six taxa of the Cyathaxoniina. The rich conodont faunas permit tracing the exact boundary between the top of the Late Palmatolepis rhenana Zone and the Palmatolepis linguiformis Zone.