Hunsrück Slate
The Hunsrück Slate (German: Hunsrück-Schiefer) is a Lower Devonian lithostratigraphic unit, a type of rock strata, in the German regions of the Hunsrück and Taunus. It is a lagerstätte famous for exceptional preservation of a highly diverse fossil fauna assemblage.
| Hunsrück Slate | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: latest Pragian to early Emsian | |
X-ray photograph of fossil of Chotecops ferdianandi, a common trilobite from Hunsrück Slate | |
| Type | Geological formation |
| Lithology | |
| Primary | Slate |
| Location | |
| Region | Hunsrück |
| Country | Germany |
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