Profil Untere Gundalpe (UG) - 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 50512: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 17.05.2005

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Taxonomic list

Cyanophyceae
  -
Cayeuxia sp. Frollo 1938
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Lithophyllum sp. Philippi 1837
Ethelia sp. Weber-van Bosse 1921
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
Dasycladacea indet. Radoicic 1969
Foraminifera
 Acervulinacea - Homotrematidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Exogyrinae indet. Vialov 1936 oyster
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
Cyclothyris latissima Sowerby 1829
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Hydrozoa
 Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae
Spongiomorpha sp. Frech 1890
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Merulinidae
"Hydnophorarea sp." = Hydnophora
"Hydnophorarea sp." = Hydnophora Fischer de Waldheim 1807 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Eugyridae
Eugyra sp. Fromentel 1857 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
? Thamnasteria sp. LeSauvage 1823 stony coral
 Helioporacea -
Calcarea
 Calcaronea - Sphaerocoeliidae
Barroisia helvetica calcareous sponge