Pipeline between Bentheim and Ochtrup, samples 88-93, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 7.2° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 36.7° N, 28.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• early Upper Hauterivian; mainly Gildhäuser sandstone, capricornu- and hildesiense-zone; samples 88-93

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified sandstone

• deeper marine
• no information given, probably sandstone (mainly Gildehäuser sandstone)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collected in 1958/1959

Primary reference: E. Kemper. 1963. Die Aufschlüsse der Unterkreide im Raum Rheine-Ahaus. Geol. Jb. 80:447-494 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76937: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 11.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Pentacrinitidae
Pentacrinus sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bivalvia
 Carditida - Astartidae
Astarte sp. Sowerby 1816 clam
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Panopaea sp." = Panopea
"Panopaea sp." = Panopea Menard 1807 clam
Gastropoda
 Cerithioidea - Turritellidae
Turritella sp. Lamarck 1799 turret shell
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Cytherettidae
Foraminifera
 Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
 Robertinida - Epistominidae