Profil Untere Gundalpe (UG) - Requienien-Biostrome (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 (125.5 - 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 50511: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Foraminiferida -
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram
  -
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
"Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba
"Ethelia alba" = Polystrata alba Pfender 1936
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Sphaerocoeliidae
Barroisia sp. Munier-Chalmas 1882 calcareous sponge
Demospongiae
 Agelasida - Milleporellidae
Promillepora sp. Dehorne 1920 demosponge
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetopsis sp. demosponge
Hydrozoa
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha sp. Frech 1890
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
? Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral
Gastropoda
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Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Heterostropha - Nerineidae
Nerinea sp. Deshayes 1827 snail
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Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostreidae indet. Rafinesque 1815 oyster
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831