Sample X/39 (99633), Mittelland canal, Sehnde, Lower Saxony (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 9.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hettangian (201.3 - 199.3 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; claystone and marl

• Tonstein, Tonmergel (interpreted as claystone, marl)

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Primary reference: G. Beutler, C. Heunisch, F.W. Luppold, B. Rettig, and H.-G. Roehling. 1996. Muschelkalk, Keuper und Lias am Mittellandkanal bei Sehnde (Niedersachsen) und die regionale Stellung des Keupers (The Muschelkalk, Keuper and Lias of the Mittelland canal section near Sehnde, Lower Saxony). Geologisches Jahrbuch Reihe A 145:67-197 [A. Miller/K. Layou/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 33523: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Karen Layou on 01.08.2003

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus incertus d'Orbigny 1839
Nodosariata
 Vaginulinida - Lagenidae
Lingulina tenera
L. tenera pupa
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia
"Lamellibranchiata indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Ostracoda
 Platycopida - Cytherellidae
Cytherelloidea circumscripta Blake 1876 ostracod
 Podocopida -
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
Ogmoconcha hagenowi Drexler 1958 ostracod
O. hagenowi hagenowi
unclassified
  -
Holothuroidea
  -
Holothuroidea indet. de Blainville 1834 sea cucumber
sclerites