Bärenthal II, Swabian Alb (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.1° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• White Jurassic Gamma

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• marly limestones and marls, sometimes with small bioherms

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. Pisera. 1997. Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology. Palaeontologia Polonica 57:3-216 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74037: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa -
Lychniscosa indet. Schrammen 1903 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae
Desmoderma evestigata Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Pachyteichismatidae
Trochobolus cylindratus Oppliger 1915 glass sponge
Trochobolus labyrinthicus Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Trochobolus texatus Goldfuss 1833 glass sponge
Trochobolus cupulus Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Trochobolus dentatus Kolb 1910 glass sponge
Pachyteichisma lopas Quenstedt 1877 glass sponge
Pachyteichisma microstoma Quenstedt 1877 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Cypelliidae
"Cypellia prolifera" = Paracypellia prolifera Zittel 1878 glass sponge
Porocypellia piriformis Goldfuss 1833 glass sponge
Cypellia caliciformis Oppliger 1907 glass sponge
Cypellia trabeculata Quenstedt 1878 glass sponge
Cypellia rugosa Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Cypellia inberbis Quenstedt 1877 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Camerospongiidae
? Camerospongia sp. n. sp. d'Orbigny 1849 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Polyblastidiidae
 Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae
Sporadopyle obliqua Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Sporadopyle pusilla Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Ventriculitidae
"Placotelia marcoui" = Discophyma, "Placotelia laciniata" = Discophyma, Lychniscaulus vannus
"Placotelia marcoui" = Discophyma glass sponge
"Placotelia laciniata" = Discophyma glass sponge
Lychniscaulus vannus Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Pachyascus formosus Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Laocoetis sp. Pomel 1872 glass sponge
Laocoetis arborescens Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Laocoetis clathrata Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Laocoetis procumbens Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Leptolacis striata Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Sphenaulax costata Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
"Laocoetis lineata" = Dictyonocoelia lineatum Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
"Laocoetis schweiggeri" = Dictyonocoelia schweiggeri Goldfuss 1829 glass sponge
"Laocoetis parallela" = Craticularia parallela Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa -
Tremaphorus apertus Oppliger 1915 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Staurodermatidae
 Hexactinosa -
Multiloqua fungulus glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Verrucocoelia verrucosa Goldfuss 1829 glass sponge
Ramispongia ramosa Quenstedt 1877 glass sponge
Linonema calyx Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Ordinatus texturatus Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa -
"Rhabdium angustatum" = Octobrum angustatum, Porospongia marginata
"Rhabdium angustatum" = Octobrum angustatum Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Porospongia marginata Goldfuss 1829 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae
"Walcotella pertusa" = Keuppiella pertusa Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
Erineum minutum Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Cribrospongia elegans Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Cribrospongia reticulata Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa - Aulocalycidae
Polygonatium sphaeroides Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Discostromatidae
"Pyrgochonia radiata" = Pyrgochonia (Actinostrombus) radiata Goldfuss 1829 demosponge
"Pyrgochonia acetabulum" = Pyrgochonia (Pyrgochonia) acetabulum Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
Hyalotragos pezizoides Goldfuss 1833 demosponge
Hyalotragos patella Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida -
Reiswigia sp. Trammer 1979 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Platychoniidae
Platychonia schlotheimi Goldfuss 1833 demosponge
"Platychonia striata" = Chonellopsis striata Schrammen 1937 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Cnemidiastridae
Cnemidiastrum stellatum, "Cnemidiastrum pluristellatum" = Cnemidiastrum (Tremastrum) pluristellatum, "Cnemidiastrum rimulosum" = Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum
Cnemidiastrum stellatum Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
"Cnemidiastrum pluristellatum" = Cnemidiastrum (Tremastrum) pluristellatum Zittel 1878 demosponge
"Cnemidiastrum rimulosum" = Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Cylindrophymatidae
Coscinodiscus sp. Schrammen 1937 demosponge
Cylindrophyma milleporata Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Corallistidae
? Kyphoclonella sp. Kolb 1910 demosponge
Kyphoclonella multiformis Kolb 1910 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Protetraclisidae
Sontheimia perforata Kolb 1910 demosponge
 Monalithistida - Lecanellidae
"Lecanella cf. nuda" = Sphaeropegma nuda Schrammen 1937 demosponge
Lecanella "sp. B" Zittel 1878 demosponge
Lecanella pateraeformis Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Megalithistida - Carterellidae
 Megalithistida - Pleromatidae
? Heterostinia sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Clavulina - Adociidae
Aka muelleri Reitner and Keupp 1991 demosponge