Emsing 192, Radiolarians, Bavaria (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Bavaria, Germany (49.0° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 19.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Werkkalk Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Informal Formation name!

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk,

Primary reference: W. Kiessling. 1997. Radiolarien im nordbayerischen Oberjura. Geologische Blätter von NO-Bayern 47:25-52 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58492: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 09.02.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Actinommacea - Xiphostylidae
Triactoma tithonianum Rüst 1885 radiolarian
Triactoma blakei Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
Spongocapsula dumitricai Widz and De Wever 1993 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
? Parvicingula sp. Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
either Parvicingula or Praeparvicingula
 Nassellaria - Sethocapsidae
Sethocapsa trachyostraca Foreman 1973 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
Complexapora tirolica Kiessling 1992 radiolarian
Zhamoidellum ovum Dumitrica 1970 radiolarian
Williriedellum carpathicum Dumitrica 1970 radiolarian
Williriedellum crystallinum Dumitrica 1970 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Angulobracchiidae
? Paronaella sp. Pessagno 1971 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Tritrabidae
Tritrabs exotica Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Parvivaccidae
Praeconosphaera spinosa Yang 1993 radiolarian
Praeconosphaera sphaeroconus Rüst 1898 radiolarian
Acastea diaphorogona Foreman 1973 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Sponguridae
Patellula sp. Kozlova 1972 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Archaeospongoprunidae
Archaeospongoprunum imlayi Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Praeconocaryommidae
Praeconocaryomma "sp. A" Pessagno 1976 radiolarian
Praeconocaryomma mamillaria Rüst 1898 radiolarian