Where: North Rhein-Westfalia, Germany (51.6° N, 6.3° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Middle Miocene (16.0 - 11.6 Ma)
• Reinbek-Dingdener stage
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; unlithified, fine-grained, micaceous, brown, gray, green, silty sandstone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils
Preservation: original aragonite
Collection methods: core, mechanical, peroxide, sieve,
• well drilling, 1994
Primary reference: G. Wienrich. 1997. Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein). Band 1 Foraminiferen, Anthozoen. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden 1:1-187 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 62895: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 01.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata | |
Sigmomorphina schwageri, Globulina gibba, Guttulina problema, Pyrulina fusiformis, Pseudopolymorphina subnodosa
Guttulina problema d'Orbigny 1826 | |
Globothalamea | |
Cibicides pseudoungerianus Cushman 1922
Cibicides dutemplei dOrbigny 1846 | |
Foraminifera | |
Textularia gramen dOrbigny 1846 | |
Spiroplectammina carinata d'Orbigny 1846 | |
Martinottiella communis Huang et al. 2019 | |
Tubothalamea | |
Foraminifera | |
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Cancris auriculus Fichtel and Moll 1798 | |
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Anthozoa | |
Flabellum sp. Lesson 1831 stony coral | |
Gastropoda | |
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"Bittium (Bittium) spina" = Bittium spina2
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Bivalvia | |
"Limopsis (Pectunculina) anomala" = Limopsis1, Limopsis (Pectunculina) lamellata1, Limopsis (Limopsis) aurita1
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"Habecardium subturgidum" = Laevicardium (Habecardium)1
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Astarte (Astarte) radiata1 Nyst and Westendorp 1839 clam Astarte radiata fa. radiata 5 specimens, Astarte radiata fa. convexior 18 specimens
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"Nuculana (Saccella) westendorpi" = Saccella westendorpi1
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"Portlandia (Yoldiella) pygmaea" = Yoldiella1
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Scaphopoda | |
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Gymnolaemata | |
Polychaeta | |