Grenzlerburg 4 (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.0° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 18.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hils Conglomerate Formation, Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; ferruginous, ooidal, calcareous mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• Ferrugineous beds, more calcareous at the base, reddish and oolitic above. Capricornu Zone, base of the oolitic Hauterivian ore beds.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: mechanical,

Primary reference: F. A. Middlemiss. 1976. Lower Cretaceous Terebratulidina of Northern England and Germany and their geological background. Geologisches Jahrbuch A30:21-104 [F. Fursich/A. Tomasovych]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55524: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Adam Tomasovych on 29.10.2005

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Cyclothyrididae
 Terebratulida -
 Terebratulida - Sellithyrididae
Sellithyris carteroniana d'Orbigny 1847
Sellithyris sella Sowerby 1823
S. sella lindensis
 Terebratulida - Zeilleriidae
Rugitela roemeri Owen 1965
Rugitela rugosa Owen 1965
 Terebratulida - Terebrataliidae
 Terebratulida - Laqueidae
"Tamarella tamarindus" = Psilothyris tamarindus, "Tamarella sp." = Psilothyris
"Tamarella tamarindus" = Psilothyris tamarindus Sowerby 1836
"Tamarella sp." = Psilothyris Cooper 1955