Pipeline between Bentheim and Ochtrup, samples 94-101, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• late Upper Hauterivian; seeleyi and (?) tenuis-zone; samples 94-101

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siliciclastic sediments

• deeper marine
• no information given, probably siliciclastic

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1958/1959

Primary reference: E. Kemper. 1963. Die Aufschlüsse der Unterkreide im Raum Rheine-Ahaus. Geol. Jb. 80:447-494 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76939: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherelloidea sp. Alexander 1929 ostracod
Cytherelloidea belonging to pulchra-ovata group
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Schuleridea thoerenensis ostracod
Sch. thörenensis
 Podocopida - Cytherettidae
"Protocythere hechti" = Hechticythere hechti Triebel 1938 ostracod
unclassified
  -
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Pentacrinitidae
Pentacrinus sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
  - Spiroplectamminidae
Tubothalamea
 Miliolida - Nubeculariidae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Robertinida - Epistominidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Triplasia emslandensis
T. emslandensis emslandensis