Also known as Reef 3185
Where: Lower Saxony, Germany (52.4° N, 9.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.5° N, 17.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Unterer Korallenoolith Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified rudstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: replaced with calcite
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,
• No bryozoans, no thecids, one serpulid species
Primary reference: M. Bertling. 1993. Riffkorallen im norddeutschen Oberjura - Taxonomie, Ökologie, Verteilung. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 226:77-123 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23921: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 24.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Thamnasteria seriata Becker 1875 stony coral
Thamnasteria concinna Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
Latiphyllia confluens Quenstedt 1843 stony coral | |
Thecosmilia costata, "Thecosmilia trichotoma" = Thecosmilia densa, Isastrea helianthoides, Montlivaltia obconica
Thecosmilia costata de Fromentel 1861 stony coral
"Thecosmilia trichotoma" = Thecosmilia densa Fromentel 1870 stony coral
Isastrea helianthoides Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Montlivaltia obconica Münster 1829 stony coral | |
"Actinarea granulata" = Actinaraea
"Actinarea granulata" = Actinaraea stony coral | |
Stylina delabechei Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
Microsolena agariciformis Etallon 1859 stony coral |