Sample X/32 (99627), Mittelland canal, Sehnde, Lower Saxony (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 15.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Pliensbachian (190.8 - 182.7 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and marl

• Tonstein, Tonmergel (interpreted as claystone, marl)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G. Beutler, C. Heunisch, F.W. Luppold, B. Rettig, and H.-G. Roehling. 1996. Muschelkalk, Keuper und Lias am Mittellandkanal bei Sehnde (Niedersachsen) und die regionale Stellung des Keupers (The Muschelkalk, Keuper and Lias of the Mittelland canal section near Sehnde, Lower Saxony). Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe A 145:67-197 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33518: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 01.08.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Holothuroidea
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Holothuroidea indet. de Blainville 1834 sea cucumber
sclerites
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda
 Belemnoidea -
Belemnitida indet. Zittel 1895 belemnite
Bivalvia
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"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Ostracoda
 Myodocopida - Polycopidae
Polycope cerasia Blake 1876 ostracod
Polycope pelta Fischer 1961 ostracod
Polycope cincinnata Apostolescu 1959 ostracod
 Podocopida - Progonocytheridae
Gramannicythere bachi ostracod
G. bachi ornata and G. bachi bachi
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia rostrata Issler 1908 ostracod
Bairdia clio Bizon 1960 ostracod
Bairdia molesta Apostolescu 1959 ostracod
Krausella sehndensis n. sp. ostracod
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Pontocyprididae
Liasina vestibulifera Gramann 1963 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
Nodosariata
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Ichtyolaria terquiemi
I. terquiemi terquiemi, I. terquiemi baueri, I. terquiemi sulcata
 Vaginulinida - Lagenidae
Lingulina tenera
L. tenera pupa
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Foraminifera
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Annulina metensis Terquem 1862
Ophthalmidium sp. Kübler and Zwingli 1870
 Textulariina - Hippocrepinidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae