Hohendorf Woods (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (54.0° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Proleymeriella schrammeni Zone, the Leymeriella tardefurcata Zone and possibly the earliest Douvilleiceras mammillatum Superzone. Material derived from glacial erratic

•boulders, called geschiebes in the following, after the German term for rock material that has been re-deposited by glacial and/or fluvioglacial forces.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Werner Beckert

• Repository: Geowissenschaftliche Sammlung of the University of Bremen, northern Germany (abbreviation GSUB).

Primary reference: J. Lehmann, H. G. Owen, and W. Beckert. 2013. A new ammonite fauna from NE Germany - evidence for an Early Albian cooling and the initial transgression in the Danish-Polish Trough. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 268:199-235 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183540: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Leymeriellidae
Proleymeriella cf. schrammeni Jacob 1907 ammonite
Leymeriella tardefurcata Leymerie 1841 ammonite
Leymeriella acuticostata Brinkmann 1937 ammonite
Neoleymeriella cf. rudis Casey 1957 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
Bellidiscus cf. subplanus Savel'ev 1973 ammonite
Bellidiscus angustus Savel'ev 1973 ammonite
? Grycia sp. Imlay 1961 ammonite
Cymahoplites hohendorfensis n. sp. Lehmann et al. 2013 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hoplitidae
? Eosonneratia sp. Saveliev 1973 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Pictetia sp. Uhlig 1883 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Hypacanthoplites "sp. 1" Spath 1923 ammonite
Hypacanthoplites elegans Fritel 1906 ammonite
Hypacanthoplites cf. elegans Fritel 1906 ammonite
Hypacanthoplites cf. corrugatus Casey 1965 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Neohibolites ex gr. strombecki Muller 1896 belemnite
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
? Eutrephoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 nautiloid
Desmoceras cf. beudanti in Grossmann, 1981