Where: Bavaria, Germany (49.8° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 17.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• spinatum zone, bed I (2000cm)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified claystone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: Specimens housed at the Institute of Geology and Paleontology at the University Tübingen, coll. no. 1590/1-67.

Primary reference: W. Riegraf. 1985. Biostratigraphie, Fauna und Mikropaläontologie des Untertoarcium-Profiles von Unterstürmig (Oberfranken, Süddeutschland). Geologische Blätter für Nordost-Bayern 34/35:241-272 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51276: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 02.06.2005

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