Beuron, Swabian Alb (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.1° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.1° N, 17.6° 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

• bedded limestones

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 74045: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Tetralithistida - Cylindrophymatidae
Cylindrophyma milleporata
Cylindrophyma milleporata Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Staurodermatidae
Stauroderma lochense
 Hexactinosa -
Tremaphorus apertus
Tremaphorus apertus Oppliger 1915 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
? Cribrospongia tesselata, Cribrospongia cucullata, Cribrospongia reticulata
Cribrospongia reticulata Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Cypelliidae
Cypellia rugosa
Cypellia rugosa Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge