Macrodus kochi Spriestersbach 1919

Abstract

Macrodus kochi Spriestersbach, 1919 Original source Spriestersbach (1919): 461, pl. 33 fig. 1; originally as “ Kochi ”. Type stratum and age “aus den Oberen Honselner Schichten”; Upper Honsel Formation, lower Givetian, Middle Devonian (German Stratigraphic Commission 2016; Löw et al. 2022). Type locality “links an der Strasse dicht unter Neuloh, Blatt Herscheid [...]; Gardeweg, Blatt Wipperfürth”; the former locality Neuloh does not exist anymore, it is located along today’s A45 highway near Lüdenscheid-Piepersloh; the locality Gardeweg is north of Wipperfürth, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Type material Syntypes are a LV (whereabouts unknown) and a figured RV (MB.M.411, coll. Spriestersbach) which is stored at the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin. Remarks Not a Parallelodon, probably a taxodont protobranch (Amler & Friedel 2025).

Authors 3

1. Julia C. Friedel

   University of Cologne

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Str. 49 a, 50674 Cologne, Germany

2. Thomas A. Neubauer Aachen Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

   Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · Bavarian Natural History Collections · Naturalis Biodiversity Center · Bayerische Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Geologie

   Affiliation as printed

   SNSB - Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany. & Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology & Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Str. 10, 80333 Munich, Germany. & Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden, The Netherlands

3. Michael R. W. Amler

   University of Cologne · Philipps University of Marburg

   Affiliation as printed

   Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Str. 49 a, 50674 Cologne, Germany. & Department of Geography, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Deutschhausstr. 10, 35032 Marburg, Germany