Kelheim Diceras Limestone (Jurassic of Germany)

Also known as Reef 586

Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.9° N, 11.9° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 19.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

• Diceras Limestone (coral limestones)

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: The bivalve collection of Boehm (1881) from the Kelheim Diceras Limestone has been revised and rearranged.

Primary reference: S.-A. Yamani. 1976. Revision der Bivalvenfauna der Kelheimer Diceraskalke (Untertithon, Bayern). Mitt. Bayer. Staatssamml. Paläont. hist. Geol. 16:5-10 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 57791: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 04.01.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Isoarcidae
 Mytilida - Mytilidae
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
"Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria" = Chlamys textoria Schlotheim 1820 scallop
listed as Ch. quenstedti and Ch. paraphora
"Chlamys (Aequipecten) nebrodensis" = Aequipecten scallop
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) virdunensis Buvignier 1852 scallop
listed as C. (Camptochlamys) tithonius
 Pectinida - Limidae
Pseudolimea duplicata Sowerby 1814 file clam
"Lima (Lima) notata" = Lima (Plagiostoma) notata de Loriol 1878 file clam
Plagiostoma pratzi Boehm 1881 file clam
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteroperna boehmi n. sp. pearl oyster
 Ostreida - Malleidae
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyra wetzleri Boehm 1882 oyster
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
 Arcida - Arcidae
 Cardiida - Kalenteridae
 Cardiida - Gastrochaenidae
? Gastrochaena sp. Spengler 1783 clam
 Hippuritida - Epidiceratidae
 Hippuritida - Diceratidae
 Megalodontida - Megalodontidae
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
 Carditida - Astartidae