Buttenheim - Probe 12: Late/Upper Pliensbachian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Nuculidae
Palaeonucula ungulella
20 individuals
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Mesosaccella galatea (d'Orbigny 1850)
3 individuals
recombined as Palaeoneilo galatea
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Yoldiidae
Rollieria subovalis
3 individuals
Bivalvia - Poromyida - Cuspidariidae
Cuspidaria sp. Dall 1886
1 individual
= Cuspidaria sp. 1
Bivalvia - Arcida - Limopsidae
Limopsis (Pectunculina) sp. (d'Orbigny 1843)
1 individual
synonym of Limopsis
= Limopsis (Pectunculina) sp. 1
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Plicatulidae
Plicatula spinosa Sowerby 1819
12 individuals
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma sp. Sowerby 1814
2 individuals
= Plagiostoma sp. 1
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Oxytoma (Oxytoma) sp. Meek 1864
16 individuals
= Oxytoma (Oxytoma) sp. 1
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Buchiidae
Anningella sp. Cox 1958
1 individual
= Anningella sp. 1
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Rhaphistomellidae
Sisenna canalis (Munster 1844)
2 individuals
Gastropoda - Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
Levipleura blainvillei (Munster 1844)
8 individuals
Gastropoda - Iravadiidae
Kalchreuthia frankei (Kuhn 1936)
90 individuals
original and current combination Pseudomelania frankei
Gastropoda - Acteoninidae
Ovactaeonina abdominiformis (Schröder 1995)
4 individuals
Ovactaeonina franconica (Kuhn 1935)
6 individuals
Ovactaeonina kalchreuthensis Gründel and Nützel 1998
5 individuals
Ovactaeonina sendelbachensis (Kuhn 1936)
9 individuals
Gastropoda - Cryptaulacidae
Xystrella sp. Cossmann 1906
2 individuals
synonym of Cryptaulax
= Xystrella sp. 1
Rhynchocerithium kochi (Goldfuss 1844)
115 individuals
recombined as Francocerithium kochi
Gastropoda - Heterostropha - Cylindrobullinidae
Cylindrobullina domeria
127 individuals
Scaphopoda
Scaphopoda indet. Bronn 1862
4 individuals
= Scaphopode sp. 1
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida
Progadilina subtrigonalis
2 individuals
Scaphopoda - Dentaliida - Laevidentaliidae
Laevidentalium sp. (Cossmann 1888)
5 individuals
original and current combination Dentalium (Laevidentalium)
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Cuneirhynchia lacuna
38 individuals
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Norellidae
Scalpellirhynchia scalpellum (Quenstedt 1851)
2 individuals
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 49.0° North, 11.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.4° North, 18.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Pliensbachian
Key time interval:Late/Upper Pliensbachian
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray poorly lithified claystone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,field collection
Collection size:478 individuals
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:23818
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:D. Hempfling
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2002-07-22 04:33:43 Last modified:2017-07-30 10:57:44
Access level:the public Released:2002-07-22 04:33:43
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
6743. U. Dorner. 2002. Palökologie von Benthosgemeinschaften im Pliensbach von Unterstürmig und Buttenheim (Mittelfranken). [F. Fursich/D. Hempfling/D. Hempfling]