Deister Mountains biostrome, Springe: Middle Oxfordian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Rhipidogyra costata Becker 1875
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Thamnasteria concinna (Goldfuss 1826)
rare category
Thamnasteria dendroidea (Lamouroux 1821)
rare category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea cf. ramulifera (Etallon 1864)
rare category
original and current combination Stephanastrea ramulifera
Actinastrea pentagonalis (Goldfuss 1829)
abundant category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Meandraraea parallela
abundant category
Actinarea granulata
rare category
original and current combination Actinaraea
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
Calamophylliopsis moreauana (Michelin 1843)
1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Caryophyllia cf. suevica (Quenstedt 1881)
rare category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
ex gr. Dimorpharaea sp. de Fromentel 1861
rare category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
cf. Latiastrea sp. Beauvais 1964
1 specimen
Fungiastraea arachnoides (Parkinson 1808)
rare category
Microphyllia sp. d'Orbigny 1849
rare category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Isastrea sp. (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
rare category
Thecosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
rare category
cf. Complexastrea sp. (d'Orbigny 1850)
1 specimen
Montlivaltia obconica (Münster 1829)
rare category
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Heliocoenia variabilis Etallon 1859
common category
Pseudocoenia limbata (Goldfuss 1829)
common category
recombined as Adelocoenia limbata
Goniocora socialis (Roemer 1836)
common category
Goniocora pumila (Quenstedt 1852)
rare category
cf. Stylina cf. delabechii
1 specimen
Stylina tubulifera (Phillips 1829)
rare category
Stylosmilia corallina Koby 1881
abundant category
cf. Placophyllia cf. tenuis Roniewicz 1976
1 specimen
recombined as Stylosmilia tenuis
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Pseudocoenia cf. suboctonis d'Orbigny 1850
rare category
synonym of Cryptocoenia castellum
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 52.3° North, 9.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.4° North, 17.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
*Period:Late/Upper Jurassic
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Oxfordian
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Korallenoolith Member:florigemma bank
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: data from ca. 1.5 m thick horizon
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified framestone
Lithology description: "mixed" coral biostrome with microbial encrustations
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Bioerosion:frequent
Encrustation:frequent
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Only corals included
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 3219
Database number:31433
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-05-13 07:28:31 Last modified:2004-01-09 08:09:03
Access level:the public Released:2003-05-13 07:28:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

8494. C. Helm, M. Reuter, and I. Schülke. 2003. Die Korallenfauna des Korallenooliths (Oxfordium, Oberjura, NW-Deutschland): Zusammensetzung, Stratigraphie und regionale Verbreitung. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 77(1):77-94 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]

Secondary references:

9608 C. Helm, I. Schülke, and F. Schlagintweit. 2003. Calcareous algae ("Porostromata", Rhodophyta, Dasycladales) and microproblematica with algal affinity from the NW German Korallenoolith Formation (Oxfordian, Süntel Mountains). Facies 49:61-86 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]