Goedringen, Germany (Paleocene of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.4° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 46.3° N, 6.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Primary reference: H. -J. Anderson. 1975. Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Teil 3: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda. Geologica et Palaeontologica 9:141-171 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3116: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Torquesia coemansi turret shell
Turritella herminae turret shell
Haustator montensis Briart and Cornet 1873 turret shell
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutocorbis nodifera" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis nodifera" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute
Bivalvia
 Cardiida - Arcticidae
 Cardiida - Veneridae
Callista duponti venus clam
 Carditida - Carditidae
Glyptoactis chavani n. sp. clam
originally entered as "Glyptoactis chavani n. sp."
 Arcida - Cucullaeidae
 Arcida - Glycymerididae