Steinbruch Rauen, Kassenberg Quarry, Mülheim/Ruhr: Cenomanian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Ringiculidae
Avellana sp. d'Orbigny 1842
1 individual
Gastropoda - Neritidae
Otostoma kassenbergensis n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
21 individuals
Gastropoda - Cerithiidae
Tympanotonus (Exechocirsus) cingillatus
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Turritellidae
Haustator cf. bauga (d'Orbigny 1842)
6 individuals
Mesalia cf. multilineata
2 individuals
Gastropoda - Metacerithiidae
? Metacerithium sp. Cossmann 1906
6 individuals
Gastropoda - Tylostomatidae
? Tylostoma sp. Sharpe 1849
12 individuals
Gastropoda - Cassidae
Galeodea (Taieria) sp. Link 1807
1 individual
Gastropoda - Aporrhaidae
? Latiala cf. lobata (Wade 1926)
1 individual
? Anchura cf. dubius (Briart and Cornet 1868)
1 individual
? Aporrhais sp. da Costa 1778
4 individuals
? Aporrhais cf. pugens (Wollemann 1908)
1 individual
Gastropoda - Colombellinidae
Columbellaria cf. tuberculosa (Binkhorst 1861)
6 individuals
Gastropoda - Procerithiidae
Cimolithium cf. belgicum (d'Archiac 1846)
9 individuals
Gastropoda - Solariellidae
Solariella sp. Wood 1842
1 individual
Gastropoda - Turbinidae
Angaria coronata (Roemer 1841)
22 individuals
Semisolarium boehmi n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
2 individuals
Margarites sp. Gray 1847
2 individuals
Deikella ruhrensis n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
17 individuals
Deikella spinicostata n. gen., n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
6 individuals
? Deikella muelheimensis n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
1 individual
Marmorostoma sp. (Swainson 1829)
1 individual
spelled with current rank as Turbo (Marmarostoma)
Gastropoda - Trochidae
? Calliostoma sp. Swainson 1840
1 individual
Tectus aff. vulgatus (Reuss 1854)
17 individuals
Tectus cf. guerangeri (d'Orbigny 1842)
2 individuals
Monodonta marcaisi (d'Orbigny 1842)
11 individuals
Margarella (Promargarita) trochoides n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
3 individuals
Margarella (Promargarita) spiraloides n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
10 individuals
Thalotia scrubiculata
110 individuals
Trochus rauenorum n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
1 individual
Trochus sarthinus d'Orbigny 1842
2 individuals
Gastropoda - Chilodontaidae
? Chilodonta sp. Etallon 1859
1 individual
Gastropoda - Eucyclidae
Onkospira perrilliatae n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
5 individuals
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Bathrotomaria sp. Cox 1956
1 individual
Bathrotomaria velata (Goldfuss 1844)
5 individuals
Bathrotomaria dixoni Cox 1960
24 individuals
Bathrotomaria harasewychi n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
3 individuals
Conotomaria percevali Cox 1960
5 individuals
Pleurotomaria sp. Defrance 1826
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Cirridae
Hamusina kahrsi Bandel 1993
50 individuals
Gastropoda - Discohelicidae
Delpeya hilperti n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
3 individuals
Gastropoda - Lepetellida - Fissurellidae
? Emarginula informal sp. 1 Lamarck 1801
1 individual
? Emarginula informal sp. 2 Lamarck 1801
1 individual
Gastropoda
Frydatinus n. gen. scheeri (Bandel and Fryda 1998)
1 individual
Gastropoda - Cycloneritida - Neritopsidae
Neritopsis kasei n. sp. Kiel and Bandel 2004
2 individuals
Gymnolaemata - Cheilostomata - Onychocellidae
Ehrhardina pikeae n. sp. Martha and Taylor 2016
Martha and Taylor 2016
Reptilia - Testudines - Protostegidae
Protostegidae indet. Cope 1873
Sachs et al. 2016
RE 551.763.310 A 7550-7553
Reptilia
Choristodera indet. (Cope 1876)
Reiss et al. 2018
RE 551.763.310 A 1448 (dorsal vertebra)
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Aulastraeoporidae
Preverastraea cf. isseli (Prever 1909)
Löser 1994 7 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Trochophyllia sp. Alloiteau 1952
Löser 1994 27 specimens
Dimorphocoenia crassisepta (d'Orbigny 1850)
Löser 1994 4 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Amphiastreidae
Cladophyllia aff. tobleri Koby 1895
Löser 1994 9 specimens
recombined as Pleurophyllia tobleri
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae
Adelocoenia pygmaea (Volz 1903)
Löser 1994 19 specimens
synonym of Cryptocoenia fontserei
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylohelia granulata (Boelsche 1871)
Löser 1994 2 specimens
Adelocoenia carantonensis (Orbigny 1850)
Löser 1994 1 specimen
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Microsolena cf. delicatula Wells 1948
Löser 1994 1 specimen
Microsolena kugleri Wells 1948
Löser 1994 36 specimens
Dimorpharaea informal sp. 1 de Fromentel 1861
Löser 1994 4 specimens
Dimorpharaea informal sp. 2 de Fromentel 1861
Löser 1994 8 specimens
Dimorpharaea deickei (Boelsche 1877)
Löser 1994 198 specimens
Eocomoseris raueni n. sp. Löser 1993
Melnikova et al. 1993 15 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Negoporitidae
Goniopora cf. michelini (Reuss 1846)
Löser 1994 1 specimen
synonym of Negoporites spissus
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Vallimeandra cf. fromenteli (Boelsche 1871)
Löser 1994 1 specimen
Baryphyllia haimei de Fromentel 1857
Löser 1994 6 specimens
recombined as Ellipsocoenia haimei
Fungiastraea ? conferta (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849)
Löser 1994 1 specimen
Fungiastraea crespoi (Felix 1891)
Löser 1994 51 specimens
Mixastraea westfalica Löser 1993
Löser 1994 17 specimens
Thamnoseris ? delorenzoi Prever 1909
Löser 1994 94 specimens
Fungiastraea cf. frondescens (d'Orbigny 1850)
Löser 1994 7 specimens
recombined as Periseris frondescens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Actinaraeopsis cf. araneola Roniewicz 1968
Löser 1994 1 specimen
recombined as Camptodocis araneola
Meandraraea sp. Etallon 1859
Löser 1994 1 specimen
Meandraraea cf. meandroides Koby 1898
Löser 1994 7 specimens
recombined as Meandrophyllia meandroides
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Acrosmiliidae
? Acrosmilia sp. d'Orbigny 1849
Löser 1994 12 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dermosmiliidae
? Epistreptophyllum sp. Milaschewitsch 1876
Löser 1994 2 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Siderofungia zitteli Felix 1891
Löser 1994 13 specimens
    = Palaeosiderofungia exigua Reuss 1854
Löser 2016
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Smilotrochiidae
? Paramontlivaltia inaequalis (Michelin 1845)
Löser 1994 34 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
Mesomorpha excavata (d'Orbigny 1850)
Löser 1994 38 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Actinastrea cf. tourtiensis (Bölsche 1871)
Löser 1994 1 specimen
recombined as Stelidioseris tourtiensis
Actinastrea actinastrae (Turnsek and Mihajlovic 1981)
Löser 1994 23 specimens
synonym of Stelidioseris melkarthi
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Orbignygyra sp. Alloiteau 1952
Löser 1994 4 specimens
Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Pachyphylliidae
Columnocoenia ksiazkiewiczi Morycowa 1964
Löser 1994 51 specimens
Anthozoa - Helioporacea - Helioporidae
Pseudopolytremacis paliformis Löser 1993
Löser 1994 1 specimen
Pseudopolytremacis spinoseptata Morycowa 1971
Löser 1994 3 specimens
Anthozoa - Helioporacea
Polytremacis lindstroemi Remes 1898
Löser 1994 1 specimen
unclassified
Acrosmilia patellata (Michelin 1845)
Löser 1994 43 specimens
synonym of Placoseris eturbensis
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Nordrhein-Westfalen
Coordinates: 51.4° North, 6.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 7.4° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Late/Upper Cretaceous
Stage:Cenomanian 10 m.y. bin:Cretaceous 5
Key time interval:Cenomanian
Age range of interval:100.50000 - 93.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: corals from Lower Cenomanian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: hard, yellow to red limestone
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: deposited in cavities of the Carboniferous sandstone along a rocky shore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:94265
Authorizer:W. Kiessling, L. Villier, P. Mannion Enterer:U. Merkel, W. Kiessling, L. Villier, P. Mannion
Modifier:L. Villier Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2010-02-15 02:53:41 Last modified:2017-11-24 04:49:17
Access level:the public Released:2010-02-15 02:53:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30543. S. Kiel and K. Bandel. 2004. The Cenomanian Gastropoda of the Kassenberg quarry in Mülheim (Germany, Late Cretaceous). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 78(1):103-126 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]

Secondary references:

32212 H. Löser. 1994. La faune corallienne du mont Kassenberg a Mülheim-sur-la-Ruhr (Bassin cretace de Westphalie, nord-ouest de l'Allemagne), 2. Paleontologie [The coral fauna of Mount Kassenberg in Mühlheim-an-der-Ruhr (Cretaceous Basin of Westphalia, NW Germany), 2. Paleontology]. Coral Research Bulletin 3:1-93 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
59163 H. Löser. 2016. Early evolution of the family Siderastraeidae (Scleractinia; Cretaceous-extant). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 90:1-17 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
63869 S. Martha and P.D. Taylor. 2016. A new Western European Cretaceous Bryozoan genus from the Early Cenomanian radiation of Neocheilostomes. Papers in Palaeontology 2(2):311-321 [L. Villier/L. Villier]
31944 G. K. Melnikova, E. Roniewicz, and H. Loeser. 1993. New microsolenid genus Eocomoseris (Scleractinia, Early Lias-Cenomanian). Annales Societatis Geologorum Poloniae 63(3):3-12 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]
67570 S. Reiss, U. Scheer, S. Sachs and B. P. Kear. 2018. Filling the biostratigraphical gap: first choristoderan from the Lower–mid Cretaceous interval of Europe. Cretaceous Research [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]
67571 S. Sachs, U. Scheer, and M. Rabi. 2016. Reste von protostegiden Meeresschildkröten aus dem Cenomanium (Oberkreide) des Kassenberges (Mülheim an der Ruhr, Westdeutschland). Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins für Bielefeld und Umgegend 54:32-43 [P. Mannion/P. Mannion]