Where: Germany (52.2° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 51.7° N, 7.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Rupelian (33.9 - 28.1 Ma)
• Rocky-shore environments with boulder beds developed on the andesite in two Palaeogene transgressive cycles. The lower cycle includes M1-M3 and the upper cycle includes M4-M7. This stratigraphical level belongs to the nannoplankton zone NP 22 and corresponds to Rupel 1 sensu Spiegler (1965). The Septaria Clay in the M5 horizon represents probably the NP23 zone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; poorly lithified, glauconitic conglomerate
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: bulk, chemical, peroxide, sieve
• Repository: Geological-Paleontological Collection (GPSL) of the Institute for Geophysics and Geology of the Leipzig University
Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and A. Müller. 2022. Early Oligocene brachiopods from the rocky-shore deposits at Mammendorf, central Germany. Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 92:87-107 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 233115: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.01.2024
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Lingulata | |
Discinisca fallens Wood 1874 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Lacazella mediterranea Risso 1826 | |
Pliothyrina grandis Blumenbach 1803 | |
Platidia sp. Costa 1852 | |
Bronnothyris rugosa Schreiber 1871
Argyrotheca bitnerae Dulai 2011
Argyrotheca megalocephala Sandberger 1862
Joania crenata Sandberger 1862 |