Brochterbeck: Middle Cenomanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Acanthoceras cf. rhotomagense (Brongniart 1822)
1 specimen
originally entered as "Acanthoceras cf. rhotomagense"
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia varians (Sowerby 1817)
14 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Puzosia mayoriana (d'Orbigny 1841)
1 specimen
recombined as Puzosia (Puzosia) mayoriana
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Anisoceratidae
Anisoceras sp. Pictet 1854
1 specimen
Anisoceras cf. plicatile (Sowerby 1819)
1 specimen
recombined as Anisoceras plicatilis
originally entered as "Anisoceras cf. plicatile"
Idiohamites aff. alternatus
1 specimen
originally entered as "Idiohamites aff. alternatus"
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites simplex d'Orbigny 1842
1 specimen
Hamites cf. subvirgulatus (Spath 1941)
1 specimen
originally entered as "Hamites cf. subvirgulatus"
Hamites cf. duplicatus Pictet and Campiche 1861
1 specimen
originally entered as "Hamites cf. duplicatus"
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Turrilites scheuchzerianus Bosc 1801
3 specimens
Turrilites costatus (Lamarck 1801)
3 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras sp. Hyatt 1894
9 specimens
Sciponoceras baculoide (Mantell 1822)
2 specimens
recombined as Sciponoceras baculoides
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Actinocamax sp. Miller 1823
1 specimen
Actinocamax primus Arkhangelsky 1912
1 specimen
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida
Belemnocamax boweri
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus atlanticus
1 specimen
Inoceramus crippsii
1 specimen
"crippsii crippsii" - originally entered as "Inoceramus crippsii crippsii"
Inoceramus crippsii
4 specimens
"crippsii ssp." - originally entered as "Inoceramus crippsii ssp."
Inoceramus crippsii
10 specimens
"crippsii hoppenstedtensis" - originally entered as "Inoceramus crippsii hoppenstedtensis"
Inoceramus schoendorfi
8 specimens
Inoceramus cf. schoendorfi
5 specimens
originally entered as "Inoceramus cf. schoendorfi"
Inoceramus aff. schoendorfi
1 specimen
originally entered as "Inoceramus aff. schoendorfi"
Inoceramus sp. n. sp. Sowerby 1814
1 specimen
"n. sp. ?" - originally entered as "Inoceramus n. sp. ?"
Inoceramus virgatus Schlüter 1877
4 specimens
"virgatus spp." - originally entered as "Inoceramus virgatus spp."
Inoceramus pictus Sowerby 1829
1 specimen
recombined as Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"pictus bohemicus" - originally entered as "Inoceramus pictus bohemicus"
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Westphalia
Coordinates: 52.2° North, 7.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 8.0° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
*Period:Middle Cretaceous - Late/Upper Cretaceous *Epoch:Gallic
*International age/stage:Middle Cenomanian - Middle Cenomanian
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian Zone: Acanthoceras rhotomagense
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed 27-97
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Environment:carbonate indet.
Geology comments: dark gray marlstones (single bed max. 120 cm. thick), white-yellow limestones (up to 100 cm.), and subordinate marly limestones.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:bulk,surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Inoceramids and Ammonites only. Calcispheres also present.
Metadata
Database number:4067
Authorizer:C. Marshall Enterer:S. Low
Modifier:M. Manojlovic Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-13 20:53:43 Last modified:2016-07-25 12:47:09
Access level:the public Released:1999-08-13 20:53:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

280. J. Lehmann. 1999. Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Cenomanian-Lower Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Northern Westphalia, North Germany. Facies 40:25-70 [C. Marshall/S. Low]