Macrodus villmarensis Beushausen, 1895
Original source
Beushausen (1895): 38, pl. 4 fig. 2.
Type stratum and age
“Stringocephalenkalk”; upper Givetian, Middle Devonian.
Type locality
“ Villmar ”; Villmar near Limburg on the Lahn, Hesse, Germany.
Type material
The type material, consisting of only one BV specimen (coll. no. MWNH-DEVO-000232) is stored at the Museum Wiesbaden, Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur. Beushausen selected the type material for M. villmarensis from the syntypes of Arca inermis G. Sandberger & F. Sandberger, 1854. The type material of both species is stored under the same number.
Remarks
Beushausen (1895) separated the short variety of Arca inermis G. Sandberger & F. Sandberger, 1854 [= Parallelodon michelini (d’Archiac & de Verneuil, 1842)] as a new species, Macrodus villmarensis; see also discussion of Arca inermis.
Publication Date: 2026-06-04