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 stage
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; unlithified siltstone
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 62867: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 31.07.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Scaphopoda | |
Lentigodentalium pseudomutabile1, "Pseudantalis aturensis" = Dentalium (Pseudantilis)1, Fissidentalium twistringense1
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Gastropoda | |
Chrysallida (Pyrgulina) pygmaea3, Odostomia (Brachystomia) cf. sallespissiensis3, Odostomia (Megastomia) tuexeni3, Turbonilla (Turbonilla) koeneniana3, Syrnola neumayri3, "Turbonilla (Pyrgolampros) pseudoterebralis" = Pyrgolampros3, "Turbonilla (Pyrgolampros) undulata" = Pyrgolampros3, Eulimella (Eulimella) acicula3, Pyramidella (Voluspa) elata3
Chrysallida (Pyrgulina) pygmaea3 Grateloup 1838 snail incl. 6 specimens Chrysallida pygmaea f. belgica
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"Ancilla (Baryspira) obsoleta" = Amalda obsoleta2
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sensu lato Unedogemmula boreoturricula3, sensu lato Unedogemmula hanseata3, Perrona obliquiplicatula3, Gemmula (Gemmula) zimmermanni3, Fusiturris duchastelii3, Boreodrillia hosiusi3
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"Conus (Conolithus) sensu lato antediluvianus" = Conus (Conolithes)3
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Bivalvia | |
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"Nuculana (Saccella) westendorpi" = Saccella westendorpi1
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Astarte (Astarte) radiata1 Nyst and Westendorp 1839 clam Astarte radiata fa. radiata 14 specimens, Astarte radiata fa. convexior 13 specimens
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Gymnolaemata | |
Discoporella umbellata1 Defrance 1823 | |
Polychaeta | |
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Foraminifera | |
Textularia gramen dOrbigny 1846 | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides dutemplei dOrbigny 1846 | |
Foraminifera | |
Spiroplectammina carinata d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Nodosariata | |
Guttulina problema d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Nodosaria bacillum, Nodosaria rudis, Dentalina intermittens, Dentalina bifurcata, Dentalina konincki, Vaginulina obtusicosta, Lenticulina (Robulus) vortex
Dentalina konincki Reuss 1861
Lenticulina (Robulus) vortex Fichtel and Moll 1798 |