Borges, brickyard and clay pit west of Ochtrup, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Parahoplites nutfieldiensis ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Aptian (122.5 - 113.0 Ma)

• laticostatum - nutfieldensis zones

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl

• thick and fossil-poor basin sediments
• 60m late Upper Aptian: dark gray marls, partly glauconitic

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 64189: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 04.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Ammonitoceras transcaspium
 Ammonitida - Ptychoceratidae
? Ptychoceratidae indet.
? Ptychoceratidae indet. Meek 1876 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Douvilleiceratidae
"Cheloniceras subnodosocostatum" = Epicheloniceras subnodosocostatum, "Cheloniceras tschernyschewi" = Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi, Cheloniceras laticostatum, Cheloniceras buxtorfi
"Cheloniceras subnodosocostatum" = Epicheloniceras subnodosocostatum Sinzow 1906 ammonite
"Cheloniceras tschernyschewi" = Epicheloniceras tschernyschewi Sinzow 1906 ammonite
Cheloniceras buxtorfi Jacob and Tobler 1906 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Acanthohoplites sp.
Acanthohoplites sp. Sinzow 1908 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Parahoplitidae
"Parahoplites nutfieldensis" = Parahoplites nutfieldiensis
"Parahoplites nutfieldensis" = Parahoplites nutfieldiensis Sowerby 1815 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnopseidae
Neohibolites sp.
Neohibolites sp. Stolley 1911 belemnite