Lochen Nordwand, Swabian Alb (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.2° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• White Jurassic Beta

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• well bedded limestones with marl intercalations

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Pisera. 1997. Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology. Palaeontologia Polonica 57:3-216 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74044: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Cypelliidae
Cypellia rugosa Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae
Sporadopyle obliqua Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Pachyteichismatidae
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
"Placotelia dolata" = Discophyma dolata
"Placotelia dolata" = Discophyma dolata Oppliger 1907 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa -
Tremaphorus apertus Oppliger 1915 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
"Walcotella pertusa" = Keuppiella pertusa
"Walcotella pertusa" = Keuppiella pertusa Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Ramispongia ramosa Quenstedt 1877 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Staurodermatidae