Where: Germany (51.8° N, 6.6° E: paleocoordinates 52.0° N, 5.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Reinbek Stuffe Formation, Langhian (16.0 - 13.8 Ma)
• Reinbekian, which is Langhian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: coastal; sandstone and claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. P. Chevalier. 1964. Zur Kenntnis der Korallen des Miocäns von Westfalen und der Niederlande [Miocene corals from Westfalen and the Netherlands]. Fortschritte in der Geologie von Rheinland und Westfalen 14:1-30 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 124096: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.02.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Stephanophyllia nysti Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral | |
"Eupsammia praelonga" = Balanophyllia praelonga
"Eupsammia praelonga" = Balanophyllia praelonga Michelotti 1838 stony coral | |
Ceratocyathus granulatus Goldfuss 1826 stony coral | |
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani Reuss 1871 stony coral | |
Flabellum tuberculatum Keferstein 1859 stony coral
Flabellum vaticani Ponzi 1876 stony coral |