Alstaette II, Große - Huendfeld (2), Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.1° N, 6.9° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 38.5° N, 30.7° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Barremian (129.4 - 125.0 Ma)

• late Lower and early Middle Barremian, i.e. Oxyteuthis brunsvicensis zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, sandy claystone

• shallow bay
• dark gray claystone, more or less sandy

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 76979: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 12.12.2007

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Chordata indet. Haeckel 1874
fish debris
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida -
Bivalvia
 Hiatellida - Hiatellidae
"Panopaea sp." = Panopea
"Panopaea sp." = Panopea Menard 1807 clam
juvenile
 Ostreida - Pteriidae
Pteria sp. Scopoli 1777 pearl oyster
juvenile
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Ceratobuliminidae
 Robertinida - Epistominidae
Protozoa
 Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Dicolocapsa sp. Haeckel 1881 radiolarian