Where: Germany (47.7° N, 12.2° E: paleocoordinates 30.4° N, 14.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Branderfleck Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: submarine fan; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: K. Smettan. 1997. Bivalven, Gastropoden und Serpuliden aus den Branderfleckschichten (Cenoman) der Fahrenbergmulde (Nördliche Kalkalpen, Bayern): Taxonomie und Palökologie [Bivalves, gastropods and serpulids from the Branderfleck Formation (Cenomanian) of Fahrenbergmulde (Bavarian Alps): taxonomy and palaeoecology]. Zitteliana 21:99-158 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 66734: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.10.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Polychaeta | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Gaudryceras leptonema" = Mesogaudryceras leptonema
"Gaudryceras leptonema" = Mesogaudryceras leptonema Sharpe 1855 ammonite | |
Sciponoceras sp. Hyatt 1894 ammonite | |
Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801 ammonite | |
Nautilida indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid | |
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite | |
Gastropoda | |
Pictavia pungens apple snail | |
Torquesia vibrayeana d'Orbigny 1842 turret shell
Torquesia granulata Sowerby 1827 turret shell | |
Trajanella stoliczkai snail | |
"Volutilithes" sp. Swainson 1829 volute | |
Perissoptera sp. Tate 1865 snail | |
Actaeonella browni Sohl and Kollmann 1985 snail | |
Trochactaeon sp. Meek 1863 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Goniomya consignata clam
"Pholadomya" sp. Sowerby 1823 clam | |
""Cyprina" sp." = Arctica
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Granocardium productum Sowerby 1832 cockle
Protocardia hillana Sowerby 1813 cockle | |
Sphaera corrugata Sowerby 1822 clam | |
Eriphyla striata clam | |
Inoceramus sp., "Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
Inoceramus sp. Sowerby 1814 clam
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam subspecies concentricoundulatus
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? Camptonectes sp. Meek 1864 scallop | |
Plagiostoma cf. semiornata file clam
Plagiostoma hoernesi file clam | |
Anomia cf. papyracea Orbigny 1847 jingle | |
Entolium sp. Meek 1865 scallop | |
Atreta aff. nilssoni Hagenow 1842 scallop | |
Gervillaria alaeformis Sowerby 1819 oyster
? Gervillaria neptuni Goldfuss 1837 oyster
Gervillia cf. solenoidea Defrance 1820 oyster | |
? Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster | |
Pinna aff. cottai oyster
Pinna cf. decussata Goldfuss 1837 oyster
Pinna decussata Goldfuss 1837 oyster | |
""Ostrea" incurva" = Acutostrea incurva
""Ostrea" incurva" = Acutostrea incurva Nilsson 1827 oyster | |
Arca carteroni ark | |
Trigonarca passyana clam | |
Cucullaea sp., "Idonearca aff. matheroni" = Cucullaea (Idonearca), "Idonearca sp." = Cucullaea (Idonearca)
Cucullaea sp. Lamarck 1801 clam
"Idonearca aff. matheroni" = Cucullaea (Idonearca) clam
"Idonearca sp." = Cucullaea (Idonearca) Conrad 1862 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834 |