Profil Lochbachalpe (LA) - Requienien-Biostrom (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (47.4° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 31.9° N, 20.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oberer Schrattenkalk Member (Schrattenkalk Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: H. Scholz. 1984. Bioherme und Biostrome im Allgäuer Schrattenkalk (Helvetikum, Unterkreide). Jahrbuch der geologischen Bundesanstalt 127(3):471-499 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 50508: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Cyclothyris latissima Sowerby 1829
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
 Hippuritida - Requieniidae
Matheronia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1873 rudist
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Promillepora sp. Dehorne 1920 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Lithocodium
  -
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Gymnocodium sp. Pia 1927
  - Solenoporaceae
Marinella sp. Pfender 1939
Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
  -
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax sp. Montfort 1808
 Orbitolinacea - Orbitolinidae