Profil Lochbachalpe (LA) - Korallen-Stromatoporen-Bioherm (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 50509: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladacea indet. Radoicic 1969
Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Rhodophyceae
  - Gymnocodiaceae
Permocalculus sp. Elliott 1955
  - Solenoporaceae
Marinella sp. Pfender 1939
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
? Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Hydnophorarea sp." = Hydnophora
"Hydnophorarea sp." = Hydnophora Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Eugyra sp. Fromentel 1857 stony coral
Hydrozoa
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha asiatica Yabe and Sugiyama
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Promillepora sp. Dehorne 1920 demosponge
Stromatoporoidea
  -
Diparistomaria sp. stromatoporoid sponge
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Cyclothyris latissima Sowerby 1829
Lithocodium
  -
Lithocodium sp. Elliott 1956
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Bacinella sp. Radoicic 1959