Quarry Tutenbrock, north of Beckum, Nordrhein-Westfalen: Late Campanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Baculites anceps Lamarck 1822
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ancyloceratidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Pachydiscidae
Pachydiscus koeneni de Grossouvre 1894
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Nautilidae
Nautilus darupensis Schluter 1876
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Belemnitella mucronata (Schlotheim 1813)
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Cardiidae
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Lima canalifera Goldfuss 1836
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
incl. I. balt. balticus, I. balt. marcki, I. balt. pteroides, I. balt. beckumiensis n. subsp.
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
listed as Ph. försteri
Echinoidea - Holasteroida - Holasteridae
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Micrasteridae
Micraster glyphus Schluter 1869
Actinopteri - Pycnodontiformes - Pycnodontidae
listed as C. münsteri
Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Scleritodermatidae
Calcarea - Calcaronea - Minchinellidae
Porosphaera globularis (Phillips 1829)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 51.8° North, 8.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° North, 18.1° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Cretaceous Epoch: Late Cretaceous
Stage: Campanian 10 m.y. bin: Cretaceous 7
Key time interval: Late Campanian
Age range of interval: 83.6 - 72.2 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ahlen Member:Beckum
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified marl
Lithology description: succession (<15m) of: gray marls, calcareous marls, argillaceous marls and marly limestone
Environment:open shallow subtidal
Geology comments: shallow sea, wave influence, varying waterdepth
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Most specimens were collected by the author himself from the 1930s to the 1960s. Lists also include some additional material from museum collections.
Metadata
Database number:64128
Authorizer:M. Aberhan Enterer:S. Nurnberg
Modifier:S. Nurnberg Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2006-09-01 05:50:21 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2006-09-01 05:50:21
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

18396. R. Giers. 1964. Die Großfauna der Mukronatenkreide (unteres Obercampan) im östlichen Münsterland. Fortschr. Geol. Rheinld. u. Westf. 7:213-294 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]