Urspring upper sponge mound (Jurassic of Germany)

Also known as Reef 3193

Where: Bavaria, Germany (49.7° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 19.3° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: platynota zone, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Upper part of buildups, dated with ammonites

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basin reef; lithified bindstone

• Microbial sponge bioherm with up to 50% laminated peloidal crusts

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: B. Lang. 1989. Die Schwamm-Biohermfazies der nördlichen Fankenalb (Urspring; Oxford, Malm): Mikrofazies, Palökologie, Paläontologie. Facies 20:199-274 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25412: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 11.09.2002

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Sutneria platynota
Sutneria platynota Reinecke 1818 ammonite
Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Pachyteichismatidae
Pachyteichisma sp.
Pachyteichisma sp. Zittel 1877 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
"Craticularia cf. paradoxa" = Laocoetis paradoxa, "Paracraticularia tubifera" = Laocoetis tubifera, "Paracraticularia cf. arborescens" = Craticularia, "Paracraticularia sp." = Craticularia
"Craticularia cf. paradoxa" = Laocoetis paradoxa Münster 1833 glass sponge
"Paracraticularia tubifera" = Laocoetis tubifera Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
"Paracraticularia cf. arborescens" = Craticularia glass sponge
"Paracraticularia sp." = Craticularia Zittel 1877 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
"Tremadictyon sp." = Cribrospongia
"Tremadictyon sp." = Cribrospongia d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa -
? Tremaphorus sp.
? Tremaphorus sp. Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Staurodermatidae
Stauroderma cf. lochensis
Demospongiae
 Clavulina - Adociidae
Aka sp.
Aka sp. De Laubenfels 1936 demosponge
 Lithistida -
Lithistida indet.
 Tetralithistida - Corallistidae
Leiocarenus sp.
Leiocarenus sp. Schrammen 1937 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Platychoniidae
Chonellopsis sp., Platychonia sp.
Chonellopsis sp. Schrammen 1937 demosponge
Platychonia sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Cnemidiastridae
Cnemidiastrum cf. granulosum