Moderwitz (Schauroth collection) (Permian of Germany)

Where: Germany (50.7° N, 11.8° E: paleocoordinates 15.4° N, 23.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Zechstein Formation, Wuchiapingian (259.9 - 254.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified carbonate

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: not stated

Primary reference: E. F. von Schauroth. 1854. Ein Beitrag zur Paläontologie des deutschen Zechsteingebirges. Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft 6:539-577 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 161274: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.09.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites gruenewaldti von Schauroth 1854 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
"Loxonema roessleri" = Zygopleura roessleri
"Loxonema roessleri" = Zygopleura roessleri Geinitz 1852 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
"Lima permiana" = Elimata permiana
"Lima permiana" = Elimata permiana King 1850 file clam
ssp. subradiata
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
"Nucula beyrichii n. sp." = Nuculopsis beyrichi
"Nucula beyrichii n. sp." = Nuculopsis beyrichi von Schauroth 1854 nut clam