Altensteig 1 Well, Tubiphytes reef, Bavaria (Jurassic of Germany)

Also known as Reef 483

Where: Germany (48.0° N, 10.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 19.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks and lithified packstone

• Tubiphytes packstone/boundstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: core, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: F. Pomoni-Papaioannou, E. Flügel, and R. Koch. 1989. Depositional environments and diagenesis of Upper Jurassic subsurface sponge- and Tubiphytes reef limestones: Altensteig 1 Well, Western Molasse Basin, Southern Germany. Facies 21:263-284 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68092: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 03.01.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
? Nodosaria sp. Lamarck 1812
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina sp. Lamarck 1804
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Bullopora sp. Quenstedt 1856
Foraminifera
  -
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Placentulinidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Textularia sp. Defrance 1824
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Spirillina sp. Reuss 1862
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
Reophax sp. Montfort 1808
Rhodophyceae
  - Solenoporaceae
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Dasycladaceae
unclassified
  -
Porifera indet. Grant 1836
Hydrozoa
  - Nigriporellidae
Tubiphytes sp. Maslov 1956
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Brachiopoda
  -
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Cycloserpula sp. Parsch 1956
 Terebellomorpha -
unclassified
  -
 Life -
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis
"Tubiphytes morronensis" = Crescentiella morronensis Crescenti 1969