Schmidt's quarry near Braunau (Devonian of Germany)

Where: Germany (51.1° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 19.4° S, 7.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Frasnian (382.7 - 372.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray limestone

• light grey limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by Denckmann in 1888; reposited in the MfN

Primary reference: D. Korn, J. Bockwinkel, V. Ebbighausen and S. A. Walton. 2011. Beloceras, the most multilobate Late Devonian ammonoid. Bulletin of Geosciences 86(1):1-28 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 157753: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Agoniatitida - Beloceratidae
Beloceras sagittarium Sandberger and Sandberger 1851 ammonite