Dresden-Strehlen, Saxony (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.0° N, 13.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 13.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Subprionocyclus neptuni ammonoid zone, Strehlen Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• middle Upper Turonian, Strehlenkalk

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: H. Löser. 1998. Die Korallen der sächsischen Oberkreide - eine Zwischenbilanz und Bemerkungen zu Korallenfaunen des Cenomans [Upper Cretaceous corals from Saxony (Germany) - interim results and notes on Cenomanian coral faunas]. Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums für Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden 43/44:173-187 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74196: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 30.07.2007, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Parasmilia centralis Mantell 1822 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
"Cyclobacia fromenteli" = Micrabacia
"Cyclobacia fromenteli" = Micrabacia stony coral
listed as Cyclabacia
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Collignoniceratidae
Subprionocyclus branneri2, "Ammonites neptuni n. sp." = Subprionocyclus neptuni2
Subprionocyclus branneri2 Anderson 1902 ammonite
"Ammonites neptuni n. sp." = Subprionocyclus neptuni2 Geinitz 1849 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Lewesiceras mantelli2 Wright and Wright 1951 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Muniericeratidae
"Muniericeras dresdense n. sp." = Tragodesmoceras dresdense2
"Muniericeras dresdense n. sp." = Tragodesmoceras dresdense2 Petrascheck 1902 ammonite
only specimen suspected missing
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
"Scaphites geinitzi" = Scaphites geinitzii2
"Scaphites geinitzi" = Scaphites geinitzii2 d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Nostoceratidae
"Hyphantoceras reussianum" = Hyphantoceras (Hyphantoceras) reussianum2 d'Orbigny 1850 ammonite
Hamites plicatilis, Hamites armatus in Geinitz, 1846
Nostoceras (Eubostrychoceras) saxonicum n. sp.2 Schluter 1875 ammonite
Turrilites polyplocus, Turrilites undulatus in Geinitz, 1842, 1846, 1874
 Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Allocrioceras billinghursti n. sp.2, "Allocrioceras strangulatum" = Allocrioceras nodiger2
Allocrioceras billinghursti n. sp.2 Klinger 1976 ammonite
Helioceras ellipticum in Geinitz
"Allocrioceras strangulatum" = Allocrioceras nodiger2 Roemer 1870 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras bohemicum2 Fritsch 1872 ammonite
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cancellothyrididae
Gyrosoria lata1 Etheridge 1881