Doberg, Bünde (Oligocene of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 5.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Doberg Formation, Chattian (28.1 - 23.0 Ma)

• "Upper Oligocene"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; poorly lithified, glauconitic, sandy marl

• Glauconite-rich sandy marls to marly sands. Poorly lithified based on fossil preservation.

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1983. The Terebratulacea (Brachiopoda) Triassic to Recent: a study of the brachidia (loops). Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 50:1-290 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 187639: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.08.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Pliothyrina grandis
Pliothyrina grandis Blumenbach 1803