Ms 6, Marktschellenberg, Berchtesgaden (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (47.7° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 21.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Schrambach-Schichten Formation, Early/Lower Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: slope; lithified, argillaceous lime mudstone

• Upper slope
• Marly greenish grey micritic limestones

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original silica

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, sieve,

Primary reference: T. Steiger. 1992. Systematik, Stratigraphie und Palökologie der Radiolarien des Oberjura-Unterkreide-Grenzbereiches im Osterhorn-Tirolikum (Nördliche Kalkalpen, Salzburg und Bayern). Zitteliana 19:1-188 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51218: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 01.06.2005

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Xitidae
Xitus spicularius Aliev 1961 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Pseudodictyomitridae
Loopus sp. Yang 1993 radiolarian
listed as Pseudodictyomitra sp.
Pseudodictyomitra carpatica Lozyniak 1969 radiolarian
 Nassellaria - Parvicingulidae
Mirifusus mediodilatatus Rüst 1885 radiolarian
ssp. globosus and minor
"Praecaneta cosmonica" = Praeparvicingula radiolarian
listed as Parvicingula cosmonica
Wrangellium depressum Baumgartner 1984 radiolarian
listed as Pseudodictyomitra depressa
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
"Favosyringium affine" = Syringocapsa affine
"Favosyringium affine" = Syringocapsa affine Rüst 1898 radiolarian
also listed as Theosyringium amaliae
 Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
Obesacapsula polyedra Steiger 1992 radiolarian
listed as Sethocapsa polyedra
Obesacapsula cetia Foreman 1973 radiolarian
listed as Sethocapsa cetia
 Nassellaria - Archaeodictyomitridae
Archaeodictyomitra apiarium Rüst 1885 radiolarian
Thanarla praeveneta Pessagno 1977 radiolarian
 Spumellaria - Pantanelliidae