1. In memoriam Dr. Wolfgang Struve 24. 12. 1924–19. 04. 1997

   Announcement Pages: 1 - 1

2. Foreword

   • F. F. Steininger

   EditorialNotes Pages: 2 - 2

3. The Eifelian-Givetian boundary andStruve’s Middle Devonian Great Gap in the Couvin area (Ardennes, southern Belgium)

   • Pierre Bultynck
   • Chris Hollevoet

   OriginalPaper Pages: 3 - 11

4. Struves Mud Mound am Weinberg — carbonate buildup-Fazies imotomari-Intervall, Hillesheimer Mulde, Eifel

   • Susanne M. L. Pohler
   • Dieter Brühl
   • Bernd Mestermann

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 29

5. Zum Mitteldevon zwischen Dahlem und Baasem (Freilingen- bis Kerpen-Schichten; Blankenheimer Mulde, Nordeifel)

   • Karl-Heinz Ribbert

   OriginalPaper Pages: 31 - 34

6. Scleroecology: Implications for ecotypical dwarfism in oxygen-restricted environments (Middle Devonian, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)

   • Bernd R. Schöne

   OriginalPaper Pages: 35 - 41

7. Population size and taxonomic diversity in geologic time: a brief look at two density-dependent models

   • Charles W. Harper

   OriginalPaper Pages: 43 - 49

8. Late Devonian stromatoporoid from the Sudetes Mountains (Poland), and endemicity of the Upper Famennian to Uppermost Famennian (=“Strunian”) stromatoporoid fauna in western Europe

   • Bruno Mistiaen
   • Dieter Weyer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 51 - 61

9. Tabulaten-Fauna im Grenzbereich Unter-/Mittel-Devon der Eifeler Richtschnitte (S-Eifel/Rheinisches Schiefergebirge)

   • Klemens Oekentorp
   • Dieter Brühl

   OriginalPaper Pages: 63 - 87

10. Neue rugose Korallen-Arten der GattungCatactotoechus Hill 1954 aus dem Devon der algerischen Sahara (Mittel-Devon/Givetium; Ahanet Becken/Süd-Algerien)

    • Rudolf Birenheide
    • Stefan Schröder

    OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 103

11. Plerophyllina (Anthozoa, Rugosa) im Mittel-Devon der Eifel (Rheinisches Schiefergebirge, Deutschland)

    • Alfons Glinski

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 117

12. Zur taxonomischen Stellung von „Fasciphyllum varium Schlüter 1889“ (Rugosa/Mittel-Devon der Eifel)

    • Stefan Schröder
    • Bernd-Peter Lütte

    OriginalPaper Pages: 119 - 129

13. Shape, growth, and evolution of the brachio-jugal system developed by the retziidines (Brachiopoda, Athyridida)

    • Fernando Alvarez

    OriginalPaper Pages: 131 - 143

14. Silicified Early Devonian (Lochkovian) brachiopods from Windellama, southeastern Australia

    • Ruth Mawson
    • John A. Talent

    OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 189

15. Brachiopod fauna and age of the Assa Formation (Early Devonian, Dra Plains, southern Anti-Atlas, Moroccan Pre-Sahara)

    • Ulrich Jansen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 191 - 207

16. Late Early Devonian (Late Emsian) eospiriferinid brachiopods from Shellabarger Pass, south-central Alaska, and their biogeographic importance; further evidence for a Siberian origin of the Farewell and allied Alaskan accreted terranes

    • Robert B. Blodgett
    • Arthur J. Boucot

    OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 221

17. Early Devonian (late Emsian) Brachiopods from Zhongping, Xiangzhou, central Guangxi, China

    • Xiu-Qin Chen
    • Zhao-Gui Yao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 223 - 265

18. Invertina struvei, a new atrypid brachiopod species from the Givetian of Morocco

    • Jacques Godefroid

    OriginalPaper Pages: 267 - 273

19. A new rhynchonellid (brachiopod) genus from the middle Frasnian of the Dinant Basin (Belgium)

    • Paul Sartenaer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 279

20. New data on systematics of some Famennian spiriferid brachiopods from Afghanistan and Iran

    • Denise Brice

    OriginalPaper Pages: 281 - 295

21. Homoctenus antecessor n. sp. (planktonische Tentaculiten, Homoctenida) aus der unteren Taravale-Formation (Unter-Zlichovium) von Victoria (Australien, Devon)

    • Gerhard K. B. Alberti

    OriginalPaper Pages: 297 - 300