Sack I (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.0° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 9.0° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, calcareous marl

Primary reference: S. Keller. 1982. Die Oberkreide der Sack-Mulde bei Alfeld (Cenoman-Unter-Coniac) Lithologie, Biostratigraphie und Inoceramen. Geologisches Jahrbuch A(64):3-171 [F. Fursich/F. Fursich/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 12692: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Danica Hempfling on 26.11.2001, edited by Franz Fursich

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus costellatus Woods 1904 clam
costellatus
Inoceramus costellatus Woods 1904 clam
longealatus
"Inoceramus striatoconcentricus" = Mytiloides striatoconcentricus Gümbel 1968 clam
aff. carpathicus
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster ex gr. leskei d'Orbigny 1855 heart urchin
Micraster sp. ex gr. leskei/cortestudinarium