Sample X/18 (99622), Mittelland canal, Sehnde, Lower Saxony (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and marl

• Tonstein, Tonmergel (interpreted as claystone, marl)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G. Beutler, C. Heunisch, F.W. Luppold, B. Rettig, and H.-G. Roehling. 1996. Muschelkalk, Keuper und Lias am Mittellandkanal bei Sehnde (Niedersachsen) und die regionale Stellung des Keupers (The Muschelkalk, Keuper and Lias of the Mittelland canal section near Sehnde, Lower Saxony). Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe A 145:67-197 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33514: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 01.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Lagenidae
Lingulina tenera
L. tenera tenera and L. tenera pupa
unclassified
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Bivalvia
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"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam