Heisterholz, near Petershagen, Nordrhein-Westfalen (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.4° N, 9.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Hauterivian (136.4 - 130.0 Ma)

• Endemoceras regale Zone; late Early Hauterivian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Collection methods: peroxide, sieve,

Primary reference: J. Mutterlose, M. Mecklenbeck, and S. Rückheim. 2001. Die Floren- und Faunenverteilung im Unter-Hauterive (Unter-Kreide) der Tongruben Heisterholz (NRW). Geol. Paläont. Westf. 58:5-31 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 50181: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 10.05.2005, edited by Austin Hendy

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Calculites sp.
calcareous nannofossil
Coccolithophyceae
 Prymnesiophycidae - Prymnesiophycidae
Micrantholithus sp. Deflandre 1954
calcareous nannofossil
Micrantholithus hoschulzii Reinhardt 1966
calcareous nannofossil
Micrantholithus obtusus Stradner 1963
calcareous nannofossil
Micrantholithus speetonensis Perch-Nielsen 1979
calcareous nannofossil
Nannoconus sp. Kamptner 1931
calcareous nannofossil
Conusphaera sp. Trejo 1969
calcareous nannofossil
 Stephanolithiales - Stephanolithiaceae
Stradnerlithus sp. Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Stradnerlithus geometricus Górka 1957
calcareous nannofossil
Rotelapillus laffittei Noël 1957
calcareous nannofossil
 Podorhabdales - Biscutaceae
Crucibiscutum salebrosum Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Discorhabdus rotatorius
calcareous nannofossil
Biscutum sp. Black 1959
calcareous nannofossil
Biscutum constans Górka 1957
calcareous nannofossil
Sollasites sp. Black 1967
calcareous nannofossil
Sollasites horticus Stradner and Adamiker 1966
calcareous nannofossil
 Podorhabdales - Tubodiscaceae
Tubodiscus sp. Thierstein 1973
calcareous nannofossil
Manivitella pemmatoidea Deflandre 1965
calcareous nannofossil
 Podorhabdales - Cretarhabdaceae
Cretarhabdus sp. Bramlette and Martini 1964
calcareous nannofossil
Cretarhabdus striatus Stradner 1963
calcareous nannofossil
Cretarhabdus conicus Bramlette and Martini 1964
calcareous nannofossil
Grantarhabdus meddii Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Speetonia colligata Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Helenea chiastia Worsley 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Retecapsa sp. Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Retecapsa crenulata Bramlette and Martini 1964
calcareous nannofossil
Retecapsa surirella Deflandre and Fert 1954
calcareous nannofossil
Retecapsa angustiforata Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
 Podorhabdales - Axopodorhabdaceae
Axopodorhabdus sp. Wind and Wise 1977
calcareous nannofossil
Axopodorhabdus dietzmannii Reinhardt 1965
calcareous nannofossil
Ethmorhabdus hauterivianus Black et al. 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Tetrapodorhabdus coptensis Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
 Eiffellithales - Eiffellithaceae
Eiffellithus sp. Reinhardt 1965
calcareous nannofossil
Eiffellithus striatus Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Tegumentum sp. Thierstein 1972
calcareous nannofossil
 Eiffellithales - Chiastozygaceae
Chiastozygus tenuis Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Tranolithus gabalus Stover 1966
calcareous nannofossil
Bukrylithus ambiguus Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Staurolithites crux Deflandre and Fert 1954
calcareous nannofossil
Zeugrhabdotus sp. Reinhardt 1965
calcareous nannofossil
Zeugrhabdotus diplogrammus Deflandre 1954
calcareous nannofossil
Zeugrhabdotus erectus Deflandre 1954
calcareous nannofossil
 Eiffellithales - Rhagodiscaceae
Rhagodiscus sp. Reinhardt 1967
calcareous nannofossil
Rhagodiscus asper Stradner 1963
calcareous nannofossil
Percivalia fenestrata Worsley 1971
calcareous nannofossil
  - Calyptrosphaeraceae
Anfractus harrisonii Medd 1979
calcareous nannofossil
 Watznaueriales - Watznaueriaceae
Watznaueria sp. Reinhardt 1964
calcareous nannofossil
Watznaueria barnesae
calcareous nannofossil
Watznaueria britannica Stradner 1963
calcareous nannofossil
Watznaueria fossacincta Black 1971
calcareous nannofossil
Watznaueria ovata Bukry 1969
calcareous nannofossil
Cyclagelosphaera sp. Noël 1965
calcareous nannofossil
Cyclagelosphaera tubulata Grün and Zweili 1980
calcareous nannofossil
Cyclagelosphaera margerelii Noël 1965
calcareous nannofossil
Diazomatolithus lehmanii Noël 1965
calcareous nannofossil
 Braarudosphaerales - Polycyclolithaceae
Eprolithus antiquus Perch-Nielsen 1979
calcareous nannofossil
Assipetra infracretaceae
calcareous nannofossil
Nodosariata
 Robertinida - Epistominidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Foraminifera
  -
 Lituolida - Ammobaculinidae
 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Lituolida - Haplophragmoididae
  -
"Marginulina pyramidalis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina pyramidalis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
 Hormosinacea - Hormosinidae
 Lituolacea - Haplophragmoiidae
Triplasia emslandensis
T. emslandensis emslandensis
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida -
"Nautilitaceae indet." = Nautiloidea
"Nautilitaceae indet." = Nautiloidea de Blainville 1825 nautiloid
 Ammonitida - Neocomitidae
"Endemoceras longinodum" = Lyticoceras, "Endemoceras sp." = Lyticoceras
"Endemoceras longinodum" = Lyticoceras ammonite
"Endemoceras sp." = Lyticoceras Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Thraciida - Thraciidae
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Palinuridae
Astacodes falcifer Bell 1863 spiny lobster
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
 Decapoda - Erymidae
"Eryma sulcata" = Eryma sulcatum
"Eryma sulcata" = Eryma sulcatum Harbort 1905 decapod
 Decapoda - Nephropidae
Hoploparia dentata Roemer 1841 clawed lobster
Ophiuroidea
  -
Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star
unclassified
  -
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
vertebrae of fish and reptile