Gersdorfer Burg, Quedlinburg (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.8° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.2° N, 19.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, gray limestone and lithified shale

• Lower Saxony Basin

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. A. Kollmann. 1982. Gastropoden-Faunen aus der höheren Unterkreide Nordwestdeutschlands [Late Early Cretaceous gastropods of Northwest Germany]. Geologisches Jahrbuch, A 65:517-551 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67179: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida -
Gastropoda
 Heterostropha - Acteonidae
 Seguenzioidea - Eucyclidae
 Trochoidea - Trochidae
 Trochoidea - Nododelphinulidae
 Cerithioidea - Cerithiidae
Cerithium clementinum cerith snail
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Cerithiopsidae
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae