Rothenberg, NE of Ochtrup, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 7.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 42.9° N, 31.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tropaeum drewi ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Aptian (119.6 - 113.2 Ma)

• drewi & seminodosum zone; early Upper Aptian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

• thick and fossil-poor basin sediments
• 45m early Upper Aptian: dark gray clay- and siltstones and clayey to silty marls

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Kemper. 1964. Einige Cephalopoden aus dem Apt des westlichen Norddeutschland. Fortschr. Geol. Rheinld. u. Westf. 7:31-66 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64185: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 04.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

• Focus on cephalopoda.
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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
Cheloniceras seminodosum
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Tropaeum drewi, Tropaeum loegteri n. sp.
Tropaeum drewi ammonite
incl. Tr. drewi drewi, Tr. drewi tenuinodosum n. subsp., Tr. drewi spinosum n .subsp.
Tropaeum loegteri n. sp. ammonite
listed as Tr. lögteri
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites sp.
Hamites sp. Parkinson 1811 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Zuercherella zuercheri
Zuercherella zuercheri Jacob et al. 1906 ammonite
listed as Zürcherella zürcheri