Blaubeuren, Swabian Alb (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.4° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 18.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• White Jurassic Delta 4

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone

• massive limestones

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 74066: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 20.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Demospongiae
 Spirosclerophorida - Cnemidiastridae
"Cnemidiastrum rimulosum" = Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum
"Cnemidiastrum rimulosum" = Cnemopeltia (Cnemopeltia) rimulosum Goldfuss 1826 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Discostromatidae
Hyalotragos pezizoides, "Pyrgochonia radiata" = Pyrgochonia (Actinostrombus) radiata
Hyalotragos pezizoides Goldfuss 1833 demosponge
"Pyrgochonia radiata" = Pyrgochonia (Actinostrombus) radiata Goldfuss 1829 demosponge
 Megalithistida - Carterellidae
Pachycothon quenstedti
 Megalithistida - Pleromatidae
? Heterostinia sp.
? Heterostinia sp. Zittel 1878 demosponge
Hexactinellida
 Hexactinosa - Euretidae
Ramispongia ramosa
Ramispongia ramosa Quenstedt 1877 glass sponge
 Lychniscosa - Cypelliidae
Cypellia rugosa
Cypellia rugosa Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
"Laocoetis parallela" = Craticularia parallela
"Laocoetis parallela" = Craticularia parallela Goldfuss 1826 glass sponge