Skip to content Skip to navigation

Article: Annelids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, Germany)

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 53
Part: 1
Publication Date: January 2010
Page(s): 215 – 232
Author(s): Derek E. G. Briggs and Christoph Bartels
Addition Information

How to Cite

BRIGGS, D. E. G., BARTELS, C. 2010. Annelids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, Germany). Palaeontology, 53, 1, 215–232.

Online Version Hosted By

Wiley Online Library
Get Article: Wiley Online Library [Pay-to-View Access] |

References

  • ALESSANDRELLO, A., BRACCHI, G. and RIOU, B. 2004. Polychaete, sipunculan and enteropneust worms from the Lower Callovian (Middle Jurassic) of La Voulte-sur-Rhône (Ardèche, France). Memorie Della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 32, 16 pp.
  • BARTELS, C. 1994. Weltberühmt: Die ‘Bundenbacher Fossilien’ des Hunsrückschiefers. Schriftenreihe des Schiefer-Fachverbandes in Deutschland, 3, 11–85.
  • BARTELS, C. and BLIND, W. 1995. Röntgenuntersuchung pyritisch vererzter Fossilien aus dem Hunsrückschiefer (Unter-Devon, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge). Metalla (Bochum), 2, 79–100.
  • BARTELS, C. and BRASSEL, G. 1990. Fossilien im Hunsrückschiefer. Dokumente des Meereslebens im Devon. Museum Idar-Oberstein Series, 7, 232 pp.
  • BARTELS, C., BRIGGS, D. E. G. and BRASSEL, G. 1998a. The fossils of the Hunsrück Slate. Marine life in the Devonian. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 309 pp.
  • BARTELS, C., LUTZ, H., BLIND, W. and OPEL, A. 1997. Schatzkammer Dachschiefer. Die Lebenswelt des Hunsrückschiefer-Meeres. Landessammlung für Naturkunde Rheinland-Pfalz and Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum, Mainz and Bochum, 82 pp.
  • BARTELS, C. and POSCHMANN, M. 2002. Linguloid brachiopods with preserved pedicles: Occurrence and taphonomy (Hunsrück Slate, Lower Emsian, Kaub Formation, Rhenish Massif, SW Germany). Metalla (Bochum), 9, 123–130.
  • BARTELS, C., POSCHMANN, M., SCHINDLER, T. and WUTTKE, M. 1998b. Mit der Sge in die Urgeschichte. Kosmos, 8, 42–48.
  • BARTELS, C., POSCHMANN, M., SCHINDLER, T. and WUTTKE, M. 2002a. Palaeontology and palaeoecology of the Kaub Formation (Lower Emsian, Lower Devonian) at Bundenbach (Hunsrück, SW Germany). Metalla (Bochum), 9, 105–122.
  • BARTELS, C. and WUTTKE, M. 1994. Fossile Überlieferung von Weichkörperstrukturen und ihre Genese im Hunsrückschiefer (Unter-Ems, Rheinisches Schiefergebirge): ein Forschungsbericht. Giessener Geologische Schriften, 51 (Festschrift Blind), 25–61 and addendum 329–333.
  • BARTELS, C., WUTTKE, M. and BRIGGS, D. E. G. 2002b. The Nahecaris project: releasing the marine life of the Devonian from the Hunsrück Slate of Bundenbach (SW Germany). Preliminary results and unresolved questions. Metalla (Bochum), 9, 59–72.
  • BARTELS, C., WUTTKE, M., POSCHMANN, M. and SCHINDLER, M. 1998c. Projekt Nahecaris. Aufschluss (Heidelberg), 48, 181–184.
  • BERGMAN, C. F. 1989. Silurian paulinitid polychaetes from Gotland. Fossils and Strata, 25, 1–128.
  • BERGSTRÖM, J. 1990. Hunsrück Slate. 277–279. In BRIGGS, D. E. G. and CROWTHER, P. R. (eds). Palaeobiology – a synthesis. Blackwell Science, Oxford, xii + 583 pp.
  • BRACCHI, G. and ALESSANDRELLO, A. 2005. Paleodiversity of the free-living polychaetes (Annelida, Polychaeta) and description of new taxa from the Upper Cretaceous Lagersttten of Haqel, Hadjula and Al-Namoura (Lebanon). Memorie Della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano, 32, 64 pp.
  • BRIGGS, D. E. G. 2003. The role of decay and mineralization in the preservation of soft-bodied fossils. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 31, 275–301.
  • BRIGGS, D. E. G. and BARTELS, C. 2001. New arthropods from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Lower Emsian, Rhenish Massif, western Germany). Palaeontology, 44, 275–303.
  • BRIGGS, D. E. G. and KEAR, A. 1993. Decay and preservation of polychaetes: taphonomic thresholds in soft-bodied organisms. Paleobiology, 19, 107–135.
  • BRIGGS, D. E. G., RAISWELL, R., BOTTRELL, S. H., HATFIELD, D. and BARTELS, C. 1996a. Controls on the pyritization of exceptionally preserved fossils: an analysis of the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany. American Journal of Science, 296, 633–663.
  • BRIGGS, D. E. G., SIVETER, D. J. and SIVETER, D. J. 1996b. Soft-bodied fossils from a Silurian volcaniclastic deposit. Nature, 382, 248–250.
  • BRUTON, D. L. and HAAS, W. 1999. The anatomy and functional morphology of Phacops (Trilobita) from the Hunsrück Slate (Devonian). Palaeontographica A, 253, 29–75.
  • BRUTON, D. L. and HAAS, W. 2003. Making Phacops come alive. Special Papers in Palaeontology, 70, 331–347.
  • CONWAY MORRIS, S. 1979. Middle Cambrian polychaetes from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 285, 227–274.
  • CONWAY MORRIS, S. and PEEL, J. S. 2008. The earliest annelids: Lower Cambrian polychaetes from the Sirius Passet Lagersttte, Peary Land, North Greenland. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 53, 137–148.
  • DONOGHUE, P. C. J. and PURNELL, M. A. 2009. Distinguishing heat from light in debate over controversial fossils. BioEssays, 31, 178–189.
  • EIBYE-JACOBSEN, D. 2004. A reevaluation of Wiwaxia and the polychaetes of the Burgess Shale. Lethaia, 37, 317–335.
  • ERIKSSON, M. E., BERGMAN, C. F. and JEPPSSON, L. 2004. Silurian scolecodonts. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 131, 269–300.
  • FARRELL, Ú. and BRIGGS, D. E. G. 2007. A pyritized polychaete from the Devonian of Ontario. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 274, 499–504.
  • FAUCHALD, K. and ROUSE, G. 1997. Polychaete systematics: past and present. Zoologica Scripta, 26, 71–138.
  • GLASS, A. and BLAKE, D. B. 2004. Preservation of tube feet in an ophiuroid (Echinodermata) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany and a redescription of Bundenbachia beneckei and Palaeophiomyxa grandis. Palontologische Zeitschrift, 78, 73–95.
  • HÖGSTRÖM, A. E. S., BRIGGS, D. E. G. and BARTELS, C. 2009. A pyritized lepidocoleid machaeridian from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 276, 1981–1986.
  • KÜHL, G., BERGSTRÖM, J. and RUST, J. 2008. Morphology, palaeobiology and phylogenetic position of Vachonisia rogeri (Arthropoda) from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate (Germany). Palaeontographica Abt. A, 286, 123–157.
  • KÜHL, G., BRIGGS, D. E. G. and RUST, J. 2009. A great appendage arthropod with a radial mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Science, 323, 771–773.
  • LEHMANN, W. M. 1959. Neue Enteckungen an Palaeoisopus. Palontologische Zeitschrift, 33, 96–103.
  • MERZ, R. A. and WOODIN, S. A. 2006. Polychaete chaetae: function, fossils, and phylogeny. Integrative and Comparative Biology, 46, 481–496.
  • MOSEBACH, R. 1952a. Zur Petrographie der Dachschiefer des Hunsrück-Schiefers. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft (Hannover), 103, 368–376.
  • MOSEBACH, R. 1952b. Mineralbildungsvorgnge als Ursache des Erhaltungszustandes der Fossilien des Hunsrück-Schiefers. Palontologische Zeitschrift, 25, 127–138.
  • OTTO, M. 1994. Zur Frage der ‘Weichteilerhaltung’ im Hunsrückschiefer. Geologica et Palaeontologica (Marburg), 28, 45–63.
  • OTTO, M. 1999. The problem of fossil interpretation. Lethaia, 32, 140–142.
  • RAISWELL, R., NEWTON, R., BOTTRELL, S. H., COBURN, P. M., BRIGGS, D. E. G., BOND, D. and POULTON, S. W. 2008. Turbidite depositional influences on the diagenesis of Beecher’s Trilobite Bed and the Hunsrück Slate: sites of soft tissue pyritization. American Journal of Science, 308, 105–129.
  • ROUSE, G. W. 1999. Trochophore concepts: ciliary bands and the evolution of larvae in spiralian Metazoa. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 66, 411–464.
  • ROUSE, G. W. 2000. The epitome of hand waving? Larval feeding and hypotheses of metazoan phylogeny. Evolution and Development, 2, 222–233.
  • ROUSE, G. W. and FAUCHALD, K. 1997. Cladistics and polychaetes. Zoologica Scripta, 26, 139–204.
  • ROUSE, G. W. and PLEIJEL, F. 2003. Problems in polychaete systematics. Hydrobiologica, 496, 175–189.
  • ROUSE, G. W. and PLEIJEL, F. 2007. Annelida. Zootaxa, 1668, 254–264.
  • ROUSSET, V., PLEIJEL, F., ROUSE, G. W., ERSÉUS, C. and SIDDALL, M. E. 2007. A molecular phylogeny of annelids. Cladistics, 23, 41–63.
  • SCHINDLER, T., SUTCLIFFE, O. E., BARTELS, C., POSCHMANN, M. and WUTTKE, M. 2002. Lithostratigraphical subdivision and chronostratigraphical position of the middle Kaub Formation (Lower Emsian, Lower Devonian) of the Bundenbach area (Hunsrück, SW Germany). Metalla (Bochum), 9, 73–88.
  • SCHRAM, F. R. 1979. Worms of the Mississippian Bear Gulch Limestone of central Montana, USA. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History, 19, 107–120.
  • STÜRMER, W. 1980. Tafel I-XVI zu: Röntgenstrahlen erforschen die Urzeit. Kleine Senckenberg-Reihe, 11, 40–71.
  • SUTCLIFFE, O. E., BRIGGS, D. E. G. and BARTELS, C. 1999. Ichnological evidence for the environmental setting of the fossil-Lagersttten in the Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Geology, 27, 275–278.
  • SUTCLIFFE, O. E., TIBBS, S. L. and BRIGGS, D. E. G. 2002. Sedimentology and environmental interpretation of fine-grained turbidites in the Kaub Formation of the Hunsrück Slate: analysis of a section excavated for Project Nahecaris. Metalla (Bochum), 9, 89–104.
  • SUTTON, M. D., BRIGGS, D. E. G., SIVETER, D. J. and SIVETER, D. J. 2001. A three-dimensionally preserved fossil polychaete worm from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England. Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 268, 2355–2363.
  • THOMPSON, I. 1979. Errant polychaetes (Annelida) from the Pennsylvanian Essex Fauna of Northern Illinois. Palaeontographica A, 163, 169–199.
  • VINTHER, J., VAN ROY, P. and BRIGGS, D. E. G. 2008. Machaeridians are Palaeozoic armoured annelids. Nature, 451, 185–188.
  • VINTHER, J. and BRIGGS, D. E. G. 2009. Machaeridian locomotion. Lethaia, 42, 357–364.
  • WESTHEIDE, W., MCHUGH, D., PURSCHKE, G. and ROUSE, G. 1999. Systematization of the Annelida: different approaches. Hydrobiologica, 402, 291–307.
  • WHITTINGTON, H. B. 1971. The Burgess Shale: history of research and preservation of fossils. 1170–1201. In Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention, Chicago, 1969. Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1674 pp.
PalAss Go! URL: http://go.palass.org/5ds | Twitter: Share on Twitter | Facebook: Share on Facebook | Google+: Share on Google+