Galgenknapp Quarry, Lengerich (Cretaceous to of Germany)

Also known as Galgenknapp Quarry, Lengerich, Germany (Coll. 2)

Where: Westphalia, Germany (52.2° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Baddeckenstedt Formation (Lower Plänerkalk Group), Early/Lower Cenomanian to Early/Lower Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, burrowed lime mudstone and wackestone

• Call based on Wilmsen et al. (2019): Facies 65:13.
• Lower Cenomanian interval is characterized by calcisphere mudstones and wackestones. Middle Cenomanian is composed of alternating limestones, marly limestones, and marlstones.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: J. Lehmann. 1999. Integrated stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment of the Cenomanian-Lower Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) of Northern Westphalia, North Germany. Facies 40:25-70 [C. Marshall/S. Low]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 4070: authorized by Charles Marshall, entered by Sofy Low on 13.08.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Only Ammonites and Inoceramids.
Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Acompsoceras inconstans Schluter 1871 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Schloenbachiidae
Schloenbachia varians Sowerby 1817 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Scaphitidae
Scaphites obliquus Sowerby 1813 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801 ammonite
Mesoturrilites boerssumensis Schluter 1876 ammonite
Hypoturrilites cf. tuberculatus Bosc 1801 ammonite
originally entered as "Hypoturrilites cf. tuberculatus"
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Inoceramus crippsii clam
"crippsii crippsii" - originally entered as "Inoceramus crippsii crippsii"
Inoceramus crippsii clam
"crippsii hoppenstedtensis" - originally entered as "Inoceramus crippsii hoppenstedtensis"
Inoceramus virgatus Schlüter 1877 clam
"virgatus ssp." - originally entered as "Inoceramus virgatus ssp."
Inoceramus cf. virgatus Schlüter 1877 clam
originally entered as "Inoceramus cf. virgatus"