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Uppermost Famennian stratigraphy and facies development of the Reigern Quarry near Hachen (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany)

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As a contribution to the ongoing international revision of the Devonian/Carboniferous boundary, we present a bed-by-bed study of the Reigern Quarry in the northern Sauerland (Rhenish Massif, Germany), which is famous as an uppermost Famennian ammonoid locality. Currently exposed are ca. 2.5 m of strongly cyclic Wocklum Limestone, conformably overlain, but with a long hiatus (topmost Famennian to upper Tournaisian), by laminated radiolarites and a thin metabentonite of the Lower Carboniferous Hardt Formation. The nodular limestones are pelagic mud-wackestones with some sporadic occurrences of cephalopod float-rudstones. The exposed part of the Wocklum Limestone falls in the successive Bispathodus ultimus ultimus and Siphonodella (Eosiphonodella) praesulcata (s.l.) zones. It yielded two new Siphonodella (Eosiphonodella) species left in open nomenclature, Neopolygnathus communis aff. dentatus and the possibly stratigraphically relevant Bispathodus ultimus corradinii ssp. nov. The upper range of Palmatolepis gracilis semisigmoidalis is significantly expanded. The conodont faunas mostly belong to variants of the pelagic Palmatolepis-Bispathodus biofacies; but in the lower part of the succession, there is a new Neopolygnathus biofacies that previously has not been recorded from deeper-water, pre-Hangenberg Crisis strata. Neopolygnathus is interpreted as a palaeoecological generalist that variably blossomed in outer or inner shelf facies and after other conodont groups declined. The mostly loose ammonoid faunas comprise almost 30 taxa and fall mostly in the lower Wocklumian Kalloclymenia subarmata and Muessenbiaergia bisulcata zones (Upper Devonian = UD VI-A1/A2), which agrees with previous ammonoid-conodont correlations.

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The B.Sc. thesis of the first author was conducted in the frame of DFG Project BE 1367/11-1 on “Eovariscan evolution of the southern and northern Prototethys: high-resolution stratigraphy, facies developments, biogeography, and geodynamic interpretation.” Traudel Fährenkämper (Münster) assisted with some of the illustrations. Gerd Schreiber and his team (Münster) helped during the preparation of ammonoids and thin sections. We like to thank Matthias Piecha and Yury Gatovsky for their helpful reviews. This publication is a contribution to IGCP 596 on “Climate change and biodiversity patterns in the Mid-Palaeozoic (Early Devonian to Early Carboniferous).”

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Söte, T., Hartenfels, S. & Becker, R.T. Uppermost Famennian stratigraphy and facies development of the Reigern Quarry near Hachen (northern Rhenish Massif, Germany). Palaeobio Palaeoenv 97, 633–654 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12549-017-0287-y

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