Pipeline between Bentheim and Ochtrup, from sample 58, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 7.2° E: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 16.0° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• early Lower Hauterivian; approx. corresponding to Noricus-Schichten; from sample 58

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified sandstone

• deeper marine
• no information given, but possibly sandstone (Noricus-Schichten = Noricus sandstone?)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1958/1959

Primary reference: E. Kemper. 1963. Die Aufschlüsse der Unterkreide im Raum Rheine-Ahaus. Geol. Jb. 80:447-494 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 64981: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 18.09.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Ophiuroidea
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Ophiuroidea indet.
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Serpula articulata
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma sp.
Oxytoma sp. Meek and Hayden 1865 scallop
juv.
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp.
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
juv.
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherettidae
Protocythere triplicata, "Protocythere hechti" = Hechticythere hechti
"Protocythere hechti" = Hechticythere hechti Triebel 1938 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
Dolocytheridea hilseana, Schuleridea rhomboidalis, Schuleridea thoerenensis, Schuleridea calcarata
Schuleridea thoerenensis ostracod
Sch. thörenensis
 Podocopida - Trachyleberididae
Cythereis senckenbergi
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherelloidea ovata
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites sp.
Ammobaculites sp. Cushman 1910
Ammobaculites belonging to subcretaceus-reophacoides group
 Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
Haplophragmium aequale
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Frondicularia concinna, Tristix acutangula, Vaginulina striolata, Vaginulina arguta, Nodosaria sceptrum, Citharina lafittei, Citharina sparsicostata, Citharina seitzi, Citharina harpa, Lagena hauteriviana
Lagena hauteriviana
incl. subspecies hauteriviana and cylindracea
 Robertinida - Epistominidae
Epistomina caracolla
Epistomina caracolla
E. caracolla caracolla
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
Bullopora laevis
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina (Marginulinopsis) gracilissima, Lenticulina (Marginulinopsis) robusta, Lenticulina (Marginulinopsis) bettenstaedti, Lenticulina (Vaginulinopsis) humilis, Lenticulina (Planularia) crepidularis, Lenticulina (Lenticulina) saxonica, Lenticulina (Lenticulina) guttata
Lenticulina (Vaginulinopsis) humilis
L. (V.) humilis humilis
Lenticulina (Lenticulina) saxonica
L. (L.) saxonica saxonica
Foraminifera
  -
"Marginulina pyramidalis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina pyramidalis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
 Lituolacea - Ataxophragmiidae
Marssonella oxycona
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Triplasia emslandensis, Triplasia pseudoroemeri