Kotouč Quarry, locality 4 (level 8), Štramberk (microcanthum zone) (Jurassic of Czech Republic)

Also known as Kotouc Quarry, Stramberk

Where: Czech Republic (49.6° N, 18.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 25.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Micracanthoceras microcanthum ammonoid zone, Stramberk Formation, Late/Upper Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Basal part of late Tithonian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified reef rocks

• Soft, white-grey limestones with boulders and lumpy limestones, irregularly distributed, usually strangely crumbled up to crushed.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Novy Jicin Regional Museum. Other specimen at J. Stoudek collection.

Primary reference: Z. Vašíček and P. Skupien. 2016. Tithonian-early Berriasian perisphinctoid ammonites from the Štramberk Limestone at Kotouč Quarry near Štramberk, Outer Western Carpathians (Czech Republic). Cretaceous Research 64:12-29 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177617: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.04.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
Micracanthoceras microcanthum Oppel 1865 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Oloriziceras magnum Tavera-Benitez 1985 ammonite