Borgholzhausen: Late/Upper Cenomanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
Actinocamax plenus (de Blainville 1827)
recombined as Praeactinocamax plenus
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Pachydesmoceras denisonianum (Stoliczka 1865)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Metoicoceras geslinianum (d'Orbigny 1841)
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus pictus Sowerby 1829
recombined as Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Orbirhynchia sp. Pettitt 1954
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Gibbithyrididae
Concinnithyris sp.
Thecostraca - Archaeolepadomorpha - Stramentidae
Stramentum (Stramentum) pulchellum (Sowerby 1843)
14 specimens
recombined as Stramentum pulchellum
unclassified
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 52.1° North, 8.3° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.1° North, 8.5° 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:Tertiary *Epoch:Oligocene
*Local age/stage:Stampian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Cenomanian Ammonoid zone: Actinocamax plenus - Metoicoceras geslinianum
Age range of interval:99.60000 - 93.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Uppermost Cenomanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the coloured sequence; Zone of Actinocamax plenus and Metoicoceras geslinianum).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:black lithified argillaceous,calcareous "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: LITHOLOGY: Dark-gray to black marly to chalky shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on figured specimens.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),surface (in situ),field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly the Geologisch-Palaontologisches Institut der Universitat, Corrensstrasse, Munster, Germany.
Metadata
Database number:9178
Authorizer:A. Miller, A. Hendy Enterer:K. Layou, A. Hendy
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-09-30 14:30:17 Last modified:2019-04-03 19:48:24
Access level:the public Released:2000-09-30 14:30:17
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

52390. N. Hauschke. 1994. Lepadomorphe Cirripedier (Crustacea, Thoracica) aus dem höchsten Cenoman des nördlichen Westfalen (Nordwestdeutschland), mit Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung, Palökologie und Taphonomie der Stramentiden. Geol. Palaont. Westf 32:5-39 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]