Borgholzhausen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.1° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Brochterbeck Formation (Lower Plänerkalk Group), Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From unnamed lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Uppermost Cenomanian. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From the coloured sequence; Zone of Actinocamax plenus and Metoicoceras geslinianum). PJW: Now Brochterbeck.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black, argillaceous, calcareous shale

• LITHOLOGY: Dark-gray to black marly to chalky shale. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, based on figured specimens.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

• COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Not stated, but possibly the Geologisch-Palaontologisches Institut der Universitat, Corrensstrasse, Munster, Germany.

Primary reference: N. Hauschke. 1994. Lepadomorphe Cirripedier (Crustacea, Thoracica) aus dem höchsten Cenoman des nördlichen Westfalen (Nordwestdeutschland), mit Bemerkungen zur Verbreitung, Palökologie und Taphonomie der Stramentiden. Geol. Palaont. Westf 32:5-39 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 9178: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 30.09.2000, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Metoicoceras geslinianum d'Orbigny 1841 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Desmoceratidae
Pachydesmoceras denisonianum Stoliczka 1865 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnitellidae
"Actinocamax plenus" = Praeactinocamax plenus
"Actinocamax plenus" = Praeactinocamax plenus de Blainville 1827 belemnite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus
"Inoceramus pictus" = Inoceramus (Inoceramus) pictus Sowerby 1829 clam
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Basiliolidae
Orbirhynchia sp. Pettitt 1954
 Terebratulida - Gibbithyrididae
Thecostraca
 Archaeolepadomorpha - Stramentidae
"Stramentum (Stramentum) pulchellum" = Stramentum pulchellum
"Stramentum (Stramentum) pulchellum" = Stramentum pulchellum Sowerby 1843 barnacle
 Ichnofossils -
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833