Dingden (Miocene of Germany)

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

• fine sandstone and clay (Glimmerton)

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Stephanophyllia nysti Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae
"Eupsammia praelonga" = Balanophyllia praelonga
"Eupsammia praelonga" = Balanophyllia praelonga Michelotti 1838 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Ceratocyathus granulatus Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Turbinoliidae
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani
"Cylindrophyllia duncani" = Peponocyathus duncani Reuss 1871 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Flabellidae
Flabellum waeli stony coral
subsp. kautskyi
Flabellum cristatum Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
and subsp. dietrichi
Flabellum tuberculatum Keferstein 1859 stony coral
Flabellum vaticani Ponzi 1876 stony coral