Where: Germany (52.1° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 8.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Brochterbeck Formation (Lower Plänerkalk Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Uppermost Cenomanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the coloured sequence; Zone of Actinocamax plenus and Metoicoceras geslinianum). PJW: Now Brochterbeck.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, argillaceous, calcareous shale
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly the Geologisch-Palaontologisches Institut der Universitat, Corrensstrasse, Munster, Germany.
Primary reference: N. Hauschke. 1994. Lepadomorphe Cirripedier (Crustacea, Thoracica) aus dem höchsten Cenoman des nördlichen Westfalen (Nordwestdeutschland), mit Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung, Palökologie und Taphonomie der Stramentiden. Geol. Palaont. Westf 32:5-39 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 9178: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.09.2000, edited by Austin Hendy
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Pachydesmoceras denisonianum Stoliczka 1865 ammonite | |
Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite | |
"Actinocamax plenus" = Praeactinocamax plenus
"Actinocamax plenus" = Praeactinocamax plenus de Blainville 1827 belemnite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Orbirhynchia sp. Pettitt 1954 | |
Thecostraca | |
"Stramentum (Stramentum) pulchellum" = Stramentum pulchellum
"Stramentum (Stramentum) pulchellum" = Stramentum pulchellum Sowerby 1843 barnacle | |
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833 |