Pipeline between Bentheim and Ochtrup, samples 72-87, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• late Lower Hauterivian; mainly bivirgatus-zone; samples 72-87

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• deeper marine
• no information given, probably siliciclastic

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1958/1959

Primary reference: E. Kemper. 1963. Die Aufschlüsse der Unterkreide im Raum Rheine-Ahaus. Geol. Jb. 80:447-494 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76934: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.12.2007, edited by Loic Villier

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
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"Marginulina pyramidalis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina pyramidalis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Epistominidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Ammobaculites belonging to subcretaceus-reophacoides group
 Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
unclassified
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Holothuroidea
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Holothuroidea indet. de Blainville 1834 sea cucumber
 Molpadiida - Molpadiidae
Calcligula liguliformis n. sp. Kristan-Tollmann 1972 sea cucumber
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Scaphopoda
 Dentaliida - Dentaliidae
Dentaliidae indet. Gray 1834 tusk shell
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Bivalvia
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
 Podocopida - Cytherettidae
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Schuleridea thoerenensis ostracod
Sch. thörenensis