Halde Sportplatz Ratheim (Paleocene of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.1° N, 6.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology:

Primary reference: H. -J. Anderson. 1975. Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Teil 3: Scaphopoda, Gastropoda, Cephalopoda. Geologica et Palaeontologica 9:141-171 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3115: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 27.07.1999

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Cypraeidae
Bernaya sp. Jousseaume 1884 cowry
 Neogastropoda - Turridae
Turris sp. Röding 1798 turrid
 Neogastropoda - Volutidae
"Volutocorbis nodifera" = Athleta (Volutocorbis)
"Volutocorbis nodifera" = Athleta (Volutocorbis) volute
 Neogastropoda - Buccinidae
Buccinidae montensis n. gen. true whelk
originally entered as "Buccinidae? n. gen. montensis"
Pseudoliva sp. Swainson 1840 true whelk
"sp. 1" - originally entered as "Pseudoliva sp. 1"
Pseudoliva sp. Swainson 1840 true whelk
"sp. 2" - originally entered as "Pseudoliva sp. 2"
 Neogastropoda - Mitridae
Mitra omalii mitre shell
 Cerithioidea - Potamididae
Pirenella sp. Gray 1847 horn snail
 Architaenioglossa - Ampullinidae
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina
"Ampullella lavalleei" = Ampullina snail
 Lepetellida - Fissurellidae