Musingen, near Bückeberg (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.3° N, 17.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Platylenticeras heteropleurum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• Directly above the Cucullaeabank

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, nodular siliciclastic sediments

• In a clay ironstone nodule

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Geological Institute of Göttingen University

Primary reference: E. Harbort. 1905. Die fauna der Schaumburg-Lippe'schen Kreidemulde. Abhandlungen der Königlich Preussischen Geologischen Landesanstalt und Bergakademie, Neue Folge 45:1-112 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 210314: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 30.05.2020

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Thecostraca
 Archaeolepadomorpha - Archaeolepadidae
"Archaeolepas decora n. sp." = Loriolepas decora
"Archaeolepas decora n. sp." = Loriolepas decora Harbort 1905 barnacle