Sample X/34 (99628), Mittelland canal, Sehnde, Lower Saxony (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 10.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 43.6° N, 22.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and marl

• Tonstein, Tonmergel (interpreted as claystone, marl)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G. Beutler, C. Heunisch, F.W. Luppold, B. Rettig, and H.-G. Roehling. 1996. Muschelkalk, Keuper und Lias am Mittellandkanal bei Sehnde (Niedersachsen) und die regionale Stellung des Keupers (The Muschelkalk, Keuper and Lias of the Mittelland canal section near Sehnde, Lower Saxony). Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe A 145:67-197 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33519: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 01.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Holothuroidea
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Holothuroidea indet. de Blainville 1834 sea cucumber
sclerites
Ostracoda
 Myodocopida - Polycopidae
Polycope pelta Fischer 1961 ostracod
Polycope cincinnata Apostolescu 1959 ostracod
Polycope cerasia Blake 1876 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia molesta Apostolescu 1959 ostracod
Bairdia rostrata Issler 1908 ostracod
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Progonocytheridae
Gramannicythere bachi ostracod
G. bachi bachi
Bivalvia
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"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Cephalopoda
 Ammonoidea -
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus incertus d'Orbigny 1839
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Ichtyolaria terquiemi
I. terquiemi terquiemi, I. terquiemi baueri, I. terquiemi sulcata
Foraminifera
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Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870