Where: Germany (47.7° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 14.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Branderfleck Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. Smettan. 1997. Bivalven, Gastropoden und Serpuliden aus den Branderfleckschichten (Cenoman) der Fahrenbergmulde (Nördliche Kalkalpen, Bayern): Taxonomie und Palökologie [Bivalves, gastropods and serpulids from the Branderfleck Formation (Cenomanian) of Fahrenbergmulde (Bavarian Alps): taxonomy and palaeoecology]. Zitteliana 21:99-158 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66776: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 16.10.2006, edited by Austin Hendy and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Cymatoceras cf. robustus nautiloid | |
Gastropoda | |
Torquesia vibrayeana d'Orbigny 1842 turret shell
Torquesia granulata Sowerby 1827 turret shell | |
Trajanella stoliczkai snail | |
? Vexillum roemeri ribbed mitre | |
Perissoptera cf. parkinsoni Mantell 1822 snail | |
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail | |
Actaeonella browni Sohl and Kollmann 1985 snail | |
"Nerita" sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail
? Otostoma michaillensis snail | |
Bivalvia | |
? Venilicardia quadrata, ""Cyprina" sp." = Arctica
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"Venus" sp. Linnaeus 1758 venus clam
Paraesa subfaba venus clam | |
Granocardium sp. Gabb 1869 cockle
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle | |
Eriphyla striata clam | |
Inoperna flagellifera Forbes 1846 mussel
Modiolus cf. typicus Forbes 1846 mussel | |
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam subspecies concentricoundulatus
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"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata
"Neithea aequicostata" = Neithea (Neithea) aequicostata Lamarck 1819 scallop | |
Plagiostoma hoernesi file clam | |
Anomia cf. papyracea Orbigny 1847 jingle | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Atreta aff. nilssoni Hagenow 1842 scallop | |
Pseudoptera glabra, Gervillaria alaeformis, Gervillia cf. solenoidea, ? Aguileria sp., ? Aguileria cf. accuminata
Pseudoptera glabra oyster
Gervillaria alaeformis Sowerby 1819 oyster
Gervillia cf. solenoidea Defrance 1820 oyster
? Aguileria sp. White 1887 oyster
? Aguileria cf. accuminata oyster | |
Pinna cf. decussata Goldfuss 1837 oyster | |
Rhynchostreon plicatulum Lamarck 1819 oyster | |
Arca carteroni ark | |
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Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 |