Also known as Reef 3283
Where: Germany (50.0° N, 8.4° E: paleocoordinates 49.9° N, 5.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Oligocene (28.4 - 23.0 Ma)
• Landschneckenkalk and lower Upper Cerithien Beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Kadolsky and R. Koch. 1988. Pseudoriffe im Landschneckenkalk und in den tieferen Oberen Cerithienschichten (Oberoligozän) des Mainzer Beckens [Pseudo-reefs in the Landschneckenkalk and the lower Upper Cerithien Beds (Upper Oligocene) of the Mainz Basin]. Geologisches Jahrbuch, A 110:135-163 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 70002: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.03.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cladophorites | |
Cladophorites sp. Reis 1923 | |
Thecostraca | |
Balanus sp. Da Costa 1778 barnacle | |
Sedentaria | |
Serpulidae indet. Rafinesque 1835 | |
Gastropoda | |
Granulolabium sp. Cossmann 1889 snail | |
Potamides sp. Brongniart 1810 horn snail
Mesohalina sp. Wittibschlager 1983 horn snail
Terebralia sp. Swainson 1840 horn snail | |
Hydrobia sp. Hartmann 1821 snail | |
Ecphora sp. Conrad 1843 murex snail | |
Melarhaphe sp. Menke 1828 periwinkle | |
Omalogyra sp. Jeffreys 1867 snail | |
Vitta sp. Mörch 1852 snail
Nerita sp. Linnaeus 1758 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Isognomon sp. Lightfoot 1786 oyster | |
Perna sp. Retzius 1788 mussel | |
Paramusculus sp. clam | |
Sphenia sp. Turton 1822 softshell clam | |
Lentidium sp. Cristofori 1832 clam | |
Polymesoda sp. Rafinesque 1828 clam | |
Congeria sp. clam | |
Mancosinodia sp. Kadolsky 1988 clam | |
Lasaea sp. Brown 1827 kelly clam | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 |