Mittellandkanal, Rethmaren (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 10.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.9° N, 34.1° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: "Ewaldi Marl" Member, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified claystone

• Lower Saxony Basin
• marly claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Kemper. 1982. Die Aucellinen des Apt und Unter-Alb Nordwestdeutschlands [Aptian and Lower Albian Aucellina of Northwest Germany]. Geologisches Jahrbuch, A 65:579-595 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67188: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.11.2006

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Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Buchiidae