...Figure 2. Halocrinites heinorum n. sp. from the Eifel (Rhenish Massif, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany). ( 1–3 ) Paratype, cast of isolated crown (NHMMZ PWL 2021/6002-LS) from the Ahbach Formation (Eifelian/Givetian boundary beds) of the locus typicus (northern industrial area of Weinsheim, Prüm...

... ( Schultze, 1866 ) n. comb., lateral view of the holotype (MCZ-102979), lithographed by Schultze (1866 , pl. 2, fig. 2). Locality: “Prüm” (W-Rhenish Massif, Eifel, Prüm syncline, Germany), stratigraphy (supposed): Uppermost part of the Ahbach Formation (lowermost Lower Givetian); 10 , Abbreviatocrinites...

...F igure 1 Postmortem epibiontic encrusting of crinoid pluricolumnals. 1, 2 , rugose corals encrusting on the pluricolumnals of (?)Procupressocrinus gracilis (Goldfuss, 1831) from the lowermost lower Givetian part of the Ahbach Formation (Middle Devonian) of the ‘Wotan Quarry’ (Hillesheim...

... evidence from recent bivalve shell growth patterns also have shown that various astronomical periods such as tidal, diurnal, fortnightly, or annual cycles may be involved in the formation of growth patterns while other (i) Daily patterns: Fine ‘ridges’ on the surface of the coral epitheca...

...-Ahbach Beds (upper Eifelian) ( Struve, 1966 ; Copper, 1967 ). In 1982, Copper et al. described P. japonica (Sugiyama) from the N3 Member of the Nakazato Formation in the Kuronborasawa Valley, from the same horizon and locality as our material; they concluded that the N3 Member is no younger than late...

... incorrect. Most records of Macgeea from the Eifel belong to Macgeea bathycalyx ( Frech, 1886 ), which is almost exclusively distributed in the upper Eifelian (Freilingen and Ahbach Formations) and differs strongly from the morphology of M. dubia ( Schröder, 1997 ). Locus typicus restrictus...