Broitzem, Braunschweig (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.2° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 42.8° N, 11.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Campanian (83.5 - 70.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; poorly lithified, calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1899

• Repository: Geologisch-Paläontologisches Institut der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn

Primary reference: W. J. Kennedy and U. Kaplan. 1995. Parapuzosia (Parapuzosia) seppenradensis (Landois) und die Ammonitenfauna der Dülmener Schichten, unteres Unter-Campan, Westfalen. Geologie und Paläontologie in Westfalen 33:1-127 [D. Bottjer/C. Powers/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165378: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.01.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Placenticeratidae
Placenticeras bidorsatum Roemer 1841 ammonite