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The fossil scorpionWaeringoscorpio hefteri Størmer, 1970 (Arachnida: Scorpiones) from the Lower Devonian of the Rhenish Massif of Germany is redescribed based on both the original type and newly collected material. A second, more tuberculate species from Siegenian strata near Bürdenbach in the Westerwald (also part of the Rhenish Massif) is described asW. westerwaldensis n. sp. Details of the coxo-sternal...
Crinoids and ophiocistioids from classical fossil localities of the National Geosite “Schlade Valley”, NE of Bergisch Gladbach (Germany) are reported for the first time. The fossils were derived from the reefal Büchel Formation (lowermost Middle Givetian, Middle Devonian) at the northern flank of the Bergisch Gladbach-Paffrath Syncline (eastern Rhenish Massif). From the abandoned quarry “Im Grubenfeld”,...
Seven further specimens of the hitherto only known Devonian phalangiotarbid Devonotarbus Poschmann, Anderson and Dunlop, 2005 are described. Thus, the genus is recorded from four different localities of Siegenian (Hombach and Burglahr) and Lower Emsian (Willwerath and Alken) age, respectively, but the specific identity of Siegenian and Emsian specimens remains unproven. The new material suggests that...
The few isolated reports of agelacrinitid edrioasteroids (“Timeischytes”) from the Middle Devonian of the Eifel (Rhenish Massif, Germany) are revised. In this context, a specimen-rich but low-diversity edrioasteroid association is described from the threshold of the Eisen and Latistriatus Members of the Junkerberg Formation (Eifelian, Middle Devonian) of the Blankenheim Syncline. Predominantly, the...
The discovery of new specimens and restudy of known collections result in revision of the disparid crinoid genus Storthingocrinus, known from the Middle Devonian of Europe and Asia. High ecophenotypic plasticity of the common S. fritillus negates the validity of several former subspecies and demonstrates the general morphologic variability of the cup proportions. This requires the definition of interspecific...
Theropod dinosaur teeth from a Lower Cretaceous karst filling in Devonian reef limestone (Massenkalk) located near the village of Balve on the northern margin of the Rhenish Massif, Germany, are described. Palynological evidence indicates that the karst filling took place during the Late Barremian to (Early) Aptian time interval. Palaeontological excavations carried out during several years at the...
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