Lüdinghausen-Seppenrade (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Westfalen, Germany (51.8° N, 7.4° E: paleocoordinates 42.4° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dülmener Schichten Formation, Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• Lingua/quadrata zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Westfälisches Museum für Naturkunde & Paläontologische Bodendenkmalpflege, Münster

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and U. Kaplan. 1995. Parapuzosia (Parapuzosia) seppenradensis (Landois) und die Ammonitenfauna der Dülmener Schichten, unteres Unter-Campan, Westfalen. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 33:1-127 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165369: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
"Pachydiscus seppenradensis n. sp." = Parapuzosia (Parapuzosia) seppenradensis
"Pachydiscus seppenradensis n. sp." = Parapuzosia (Parapuzosia) seppenradensis Landois 1895 ammonite