Quarry Phoenix, near Beckum, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.8° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 42.3° N, 8.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Beckum Member (Ahlen Formation), Late/Upper Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified marl

• shallow sea, wave influence, varying waterdepth
• succession (<15m) of: gray marls, marls, calcareous marls and limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Most specimens were collected by the author himself from the 1930s to the 1960s. Lists also include some additional material from museum collections.

Primary reference: R. Giers. 1964. Die Großfauna der Mukronatenkreide (unteres Obercampan) im östlichen Münsterland. Fortschr. Geol. Rheinld. u. Westf. 7:213-294 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64131: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.09.2006, edited by Jonathan Tennant

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Calcarea
 Lithonida - Minchinellidae
Porosphaera globularis Phillips 1829 calcareous sponge
Reptilia
 Squamata - Mosasauridae
Clidastes sp. Cope 1868 mosasaur
part of skull
Crinoidea
 Comatulida - Bourgueticrinidae
Bourgueticrinus ellipticus Miller 1821 Feather star
Echinoidea
 Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinocorys ovatus Leske 1778 sea urchin
 Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster glyphus Schluter 1869 heart urchin
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus balticus Bohm 1907 clam
incl. I. balt. marcki, I. balt. pteroides, I. balt. beckumiensis
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella mucronata Schlotheim 1813 belemnite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae