Heuchstetten, Swabian Alb (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.6° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 18.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

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

• White Jurassic Epsilon

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified limestone

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 74099: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 23.07.2007

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Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae
Xenoschrammenum alternans Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
 Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Laocoetis paradoxa Münster 1833 glass sponge
 Hexactinosa -
Rhogostomium corrugatum Schrammen 1937 glass sponge
Demospongiae
 Monalithistida - Lecanellidae
Lecanella pateraeformis Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Corallistidae
Dicranoclonella sp. Schrammen 1937 demosponge
 Tetralithistida -
Tetracladina indet. Zittel 1878 demosponge
 Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Kalpinella cf. pateraeformis Hinde 1884 demosponge
 Spirosclerophorida - Platychoniidae
"Platychonia striata" = Chonellopsis striata
"Platychonia striata" = Chonellopsis striata Schrammen 1937 demosponge