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''' ''Paleoctenophora brasseli'' ''' is a fossil of a marine species [[Ctenophora|ctenophore]] <ref>http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559324</ref>, found in [[Devonian]] slate near the German town of [[Buntenbach]] in [[Hunsrück]], [[Germany]].
''' ''Paleoctenophora brasseli'' ''' is a fossil of a marine species [[Ctenophora|ctenophore]],<ref>http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=559324</ref> found in [[Devonian]] slate near the German town of [[Buntenbach]] in [[Hunsrück]], [[Germany]].


It is approximately 400 million years old and shows the eight comb rows seen in modern ctenophores.
It is approximately 400 million years old and shows the eight comb rows seen in modern ctenophores.

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Paleoctenophora brasseli is a fossil of a marine species ctenophore,[1] found in Devonian slate near the German town of Buntenbach in Hunsrück, Germany.

It is approximately 400 million years old and shows the eight comb rows seen in modern ctenophores.

It is named after the fossil collector Günther Brassel and first documented in Nature magazine in 1983. The only known example is now in the Bavarian State Collection.[2]

Another fossil species, Archaeocydippida hunsrueckiana, was found in the same rock formation.

References

  • Bartels, C., Brassel, G., Fossilien im Hunsrückschiefer, Dokumente des Meereslebens im Devon, Museum Idar-Oberstein, 7, Seite 63
  • Conway Morris, S., Collins, D. H., Middle Cambrian ctenophores from the Stephen formation, British Columbia, Canada, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 351, 1996, Seite 279
  • Otto, M., Zur Frage der Weichtiererhaltung im Hunsrückschiefer, Geol. Palaeont. 28, Seite 45
  • George D. Stanley Jr., Wilhelm Stürmer, The first fossil ctenophore from the Lower Devonian of West Germany, Nature, 303, 1983, Seite 518