Müllersfelsen, Streitberg, sponge-algal buildup (Jurassic to of Germany)

Also known as Reef 510

Where: Germany (49.8° N, 11.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 19.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Middle Oxfordian to Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified wackestone

• sponge-crust boundstones; tuberolitic wackestones and lithoclastic packstones in the marginal areas

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. Flügel and T. Steiger. 1981. An Upper Jurassic sponge-algal buildup from the Northern Frankenalb, West Germany. Special publication Society of Economic Paleontologists and Mineralogists 30:371-397 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68548: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 26.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Lithistida -
 Spirosclerophorida - Platychoniidae
? Platychonia sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa -
Lychniscosa indet. Schrammen 1903 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae
"Sporadopyle favrei" = Favispongia
"Sporadopyle favrei" = Favispongia glass sponge
 Hexasterophora -
Hexactinosa indet. Schrammen 1903 glass sponge
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Ophiuroidea
  -
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda indet. Cuvier 1797
Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula sp. Lamarck 1799 nut clam
 Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Liostrea sp. Douvillé 1904 oyster
 Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula sp. Lamarck 1801 scallop
 Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Pholadomya sp. Sowerby 1823 clam
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Foraminifera
 Involutinina - Trocholinidae
Trocholina sp. Paalzow 1922
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax sp. de Montfort 1808
 Ammodiscoidea - Saccamminidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Tolypammina sp. Rhumbler 1895
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Textularia jurassica Guembel 1862
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Spirillina polygyrata Bartenstein and Brand 1937
  -
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Hauerinidae
Quinqueloculina sp. d'Orbigny 1826