Where: North Rhein-Westfalia, Germany (51.5° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Reinbek-Dingdener or Reinbek-Bislicher stage
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified, fine-grained, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collection methods: core, mechanical, peroxide, sieve,
• well drilling, 1992
Primary reference: G. Wienrich. 1997. Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 1 Foraminiferen, Anthozoen. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden 1:1-187 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 61899: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 07.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stephanophyllia imperialis Michelin 1841 stony coral | |
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani Reuss 1871 stony coral | |
Deltocyathus reussi stony coral | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
Gymnolaemata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Cryptopora sp.1 Jeffreys 1869 | |
Polychaeta | |
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Scaphopoda | |
Fissidentalium twistringense1, Lentigodentalium pseudomutabile1, "Pseudantalis aturensis" = Dentalium (Pseudantilis)1
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Bivalvia | |
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Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita1, "Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis1, Limopsis (Pectunculina) lamellata1
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"Pododesmus (Heteranomia) squamula" = Heteranomia squamula1
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Astarte (Astarte) radiata1 Nyst and Westendorp 1839 clam Astarte radiata fa. radiata 4 specimens, Astarte radiata fa. convexior 24 specimens
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"Lucinoma borealis" = Lucinoma (Lucinoma) borealis1
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"Nuculana (Saccella) westendorpi" = Saccella westendorpi1
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Gastropoda | |
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"Turbonilla (Pyrgolampros) pseudoterebralis" = Pyrgolampros3, "Turbonilla (Pyrgolampros) undulata" = Pyrgolampros3, Chrysallida (Pyrgulina) "sp. 2"3, Chrysallida (Parthenina) cimbrica3, Chrysallida (Parthenina) "sp. 1"3, Chrysallida (Pyrgulina) pygmaea3, Pyramidella (Voluspa) plicosa3, Odostomia (Megastomia) tuexeni3, Syrnola hoernesi3, Syrnola neumayri3, Turbonilla (Turbonilla) gastaldi3
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Opalia (Nodiscala) rugatina2, Cirsotrema (Cirsotrema) crassicostatum2, "Amaea (Scalina) subreticula" = Scalina2
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"Conus (Conolithus) sensu lato antediluvianus" = Conus (Conolithes)3
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Nodosariata | |
Sigmomorphina sp., Guttulina problema, Globulina gibba, Pyrulina fusiformis, Pseudopolymorphina subnodosa
Sigmomorphina sp. Cushman and Ozawa 1928
Guttulina problema d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Lenticulina (Lenticulina) rotulata, Lenticulina (Robulus) cultrata, Lenticulina (Robulus) depauperata, Lenticulina (Robulus) similis, Lenticulina (Robulus) ornata, Lenticulina (Lenticulina) inornata, Lenticulina (Lenticulina) calcar, Lenticulina (Lenticulina) crassa
Lenticulina (Lenticulina) rotulata Lamarck 1804
Lenticulina (Lenticulina) inornata d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Dentalina obliquestriata, Dentalina intermittens, Dentalina bifurcata, Dentalina konincki, Vaginulina obtusicosta, Nodosaria grandis, Lenticulina (Robulus) vortex
Dentalina konincki Reuss 1861
Lenticulina (Robulus) vortex Fichtel and Moll 1798 | |
Foraminifera | |
Spiroplectammina carinata d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Textularia gramen dOrbigny 1846 | |
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Globothalamea | |