Latdorf Beds. Brown charring pit, Latdorf, 5 km eastnortheast from Bernburg (Eocene of Germany)

Also known as Lattorf

Where: Germany (51.8° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.6° N, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: NP 21 zone, Latdorf Member (Silberberg Formation), Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Latdorfian; formation goes from Rupelian to Priabonian, but Latdorfian beds are early Priabonian.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, glauconitic, gray, sandy marl

• Grey glauconitic marly sands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. A. Schilder. 1922. Contributions to the knowledge of the genera Cypraea and Trivia. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 15:98-122 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 179751: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 29.06.2016, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Epitonioidea - Epitoniidae
 Vanikoroidea - Eulimidae
Niso acuta1 snail
 Vanikoroidea - Vanikoridae
"? Capulus squamaeformis" = Leptonotis squamaeformis2
"? Capulus squamaeformis" = Leptonotis squamaeformis2 Lamarck 1802 snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella woodi1 turret shell
 Cerithioidea - Batillariidae
"Batillaria (Vicinocerithium) concava" = Vicinocerithium1
"Batillaria (Vicinocerithium) concava" = Vicinocerithium1 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Strombidae
"Ectinochilus planus" = Ectinochilus planum2
"Ectinochilus planus" = Ectinochilus planum2 Beyrich 1854 true conch
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Aporrhais speciosa2 Schlotheim 1820 snail
 Neogastropoda - Conidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cassidae
"Galeodea nodosa" = Galeodea (Mambrinia) nodosa2 Solander in Brander 1766 snail
Galeodea nodosa quadricostata
 Sorbeoconcha - Ranellidae
"Charonia (Sassia) flandriea" = Sassia2, "Charonia (Sassia) multigrana" = Sassia2
"Charonia (Sassia) flandriea" = Sassia2 triton shell
"Charonia (Sassia) multigrana" = Sassia2 triton shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Eratoidae
Eratotrivia costulata2 Giebel 1861 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Pediculariidae
"Trivia scabriuscula" = Cypraeogemmula liliputana3
"Trivia scabriuscula" = Cypraeogemmula liliputana3 Schilder 1922 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Xenophoridae
Xenophora solida2 carrier shell
 Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Sigatica (Sigatica) hantoniensis2 Pilkington 1804 moon snail
Euspira dilatata2 moon snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Rissoidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Vermetidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Triforidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Triphoridae
 Sorbeoconcha - Hipponicidae
"Capulus (Krebsia) elatus" = Krebsia2
"Capulus (Krebsia) elatus" = Krebsia2 hoof shell
 Heterostropha - Architectonicidae
"Architectonica (Pseudotorinia) orbitata" = Pseudotorinia1 snail
 Heterostropha - Mathildidae
Bivalvia
 Solemyida - Nucinellidae
Nucinella cincta n. sp.4 von Koenen 1893 Nut Clam