Saal Quarry, Regensburg, sponge mounds: Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae - Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Jerea sp. Lamouroux 1821
Siphonia sp. Goldfuss 1826
Reptilia - Eurysternidae
Hydropelta sp. Meyer 1850
Karl et al. 2012
Precise locality unknown, fragmentary material
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 11.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.1° North, 11.8° 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
Key time interval:Middle Cenomanian - Late/Upper Cenomanian
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Regensburger Grünsandstein Member:Quadersandstein
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: units 8 and 10
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified bafflestone
Lithology description: Lithistid sponge biostromes and mounds in sandstone beds. Mounds of unit 8: up to 1 m thick. Mounds of unit 10: up to 1.3 m thick and 4.4 m wide. 6 sponge morphotypes.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 2966
Database number:74183
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, P. Mannion Enterer:U. Merkel, J. Tennant
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-07-27 06:54:06 Last modified:2007-07-27 09:54:06
Access level:the public Released:2007-07-27 06:54:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24903. E. G. Kauffman, D. Herm, C. C. Johnson, P. Harries, and R. Höfling. 2000. The ecology of Cenomanian lithistid sponge frameworks, Regensburg area, Germany. Lethaia 33:214-235 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]

Secondary references:

46818 H.-V. Karl, G. Tichy, and D. Valdisberri. 2012. Sontiochelys cretacea Stache, 1905 and new description of the families Eurysternidae Dollo, 1886 and Thalassemydidae Rutimeyer, 1873 (Testudines: Cryptodira). Studia Geologica Salmanticensia 48(1):45-76 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/P. Wagner]