SE Hildesheim, Lower Saxony: Late/Upper Oxfordian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Mytilida - Mytilidae
Modiolus (Modiolus) imbricatus (Sowerby 1818)
4 individuals
Inoperna perplicata (Etallon 1863)
6 individuals
Falcimytilus jurensis
2 individuals
Arcomytilus pectinatus
27 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae
Gryphaeidae indet. Vialov 1936
14 individuals
Nanogyra nana (Sowerby 1822)
10 individuals
recombined as Nanogyra (Nanogyra) nana
Gryphaea sp. Lamarck 1801
4 individuals
Gryphaea (? Bilobissa) alimena
3 individuals
Deltoideum delta (Smith 1817)
3 individuals
Liostrea cf. moreana Pugaczewska 1971
4 individuals
synonym of Deltoideum (Deltoideum) delta
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) sp. Linnaeus 1758
2 individuals
Trichites sp. Lhuyd 1760
24 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Bakevelliidae
Costigervillia choffati
5 individuals
Bakevellia (Bakevellia) waltoni (Lycett 1863)
11 individuals
Gervillella lanceolata (Muenster 1826)
48 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pteriidae
? Pteria costatula
28 individuals
Pteria credneriana
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Malleidae
Isognomon (Rostroperna) thurmanni
15 individuals
Isognomon (Isognomon) promytiloides
1 individual
Isognomon (Isognomon) subplana
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Palaeolophidae
Actinostreon solitarium (Sowerby 1824)
18 individuals
synonym of Actinostreon gregareum
Actinostreon cf. marshi (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma laeviusculum
17 individuals
Pseudolimea duplicata (Sowerby 1814)
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula informal sp. A Lamarck 1801
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Chlamys (Chlamys) textoria (Schlotheim 1820)
6 individuals
recombined as Chlamys textoria
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
3 individuals
Radulopecten strictus
2 individuals
Radulopecten fibrosus (Sowerby 1816)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Retroceramus sp. Koschelkina 1958
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Cucullaeidae
Cucullaea (Idonearca) texta
129 individuals
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Grammatodon (Cosmetodon) keyserlingii d'Orbigny 1850
42 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophorellidae
Myophorella (Myophorella) clavellata (Parkinson 1811)
143 individuals
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Trigonia (Trigonia) reticulata Agassiz 1841
42 individuals
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Lucinidae
? Perampliata elongata
5 individuals
Sphaeriola sp. Stoliczka 1871
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadomyida - Pholadomyidae
Goniomya (Goniomya) trapezicostata
1 individual
Pachymya (Arcomya) sinuata
4 individuals
Homomya gibbosa Sowerby 1814
6 individuals
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) aequalis
3 individuals
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) ambigua (Sowerby 1819)
2 individuals
Pholadomya (Pholadomya) protei (Brongniart 1821)
4 individuals
recombined as Pholadomya (Bucardiomya) protei
Bivalvia - Pandorida - Laternulidae
Cercomya (Cercomya) cf. expansa
5 individuals
Cercomya (Cercomya) undulata Sowerby 1827
3 individuals
? Plectomya sp. Loriol 1868
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Thraciida - Thraciidae
Thracia (Thracia) depressa (Sowerby 1823)
4 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Corbulidae
"Corbula" rostralis
2 individuals
"Corbula" trigona
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Ceratomyidae
Ceratomya plicata
1 individual
Ceratomya concentrica Sowerby 1822
2 individuals
Ceratomya excentrica (Roemer 1836)
17 individuals
Bivalvia - Pholadida - Pleuromyidae
Pleuromya uniformis Sowerby 1813
33 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Arcticidae
Isocyprina (Isocyprina) carinella
94 individuals
Anisocardia (Anisocardia) elegans
22 individuals
Pronoella (Pronoella) spanieri
5 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Integricardium (Integricardium) suprajurense
69 individuals
Integricardium (Integricardium) bannesianum (Contejean 1859)
46 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Tancrediidae
Corbicellopsis laevis
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Quenstedtiidae
Quenstedtia laevigata
1 individual
Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Ceratomyopsidae
Ceratomyopsis striata (d'Orbigny 1822)
109 individuals
Bivalvia - Megalodontida - Megalodontidae
Pachyrisma (Pachyrisma) cornuta
2 individuals
Bivalvia - Carditida - Astartidae
Neocrassina (Neocrassina) subdepressa
47 individuals
Coelopis (Coelopis) thais
1 individual
Nicaniella (Nicaniella) morini
9 individuals
Coelastarte discus
13 individuals
reassigned as Neocrassina (Coelastarte)
Hemimenia curvirostris
3 individuals
replaced by Hemipelex
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 52.1° North, 10.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.3° North, 18.0° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian Ammonoid zone: Pseudocordata
Age range of interval:157.90000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Korallenoolith
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Upper Korallenoolith Formation, Ringsteadia pseudocordata Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,recrystallized
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: bivalves only; gastropods and rare brachiopods, ammonites reported to be present, but not listed
Metadata
Database number:60387
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-05-12 03:21:47 Last modified:2020-10-12 03:50:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-05-12 03:21:47
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17371. H. Scholz. 2005. Taxonomie der Muschelfauna aus dem Oberjura von Hildesheim (N-Deutschland)[Taxonomy of Upper Jurassic Bivalves from Hildesheim (Northern Germany)]. Beringeria 35:3-52 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]