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).
Publication Date: 2026-06-04