Ludwigskanal cutting, bed 10 (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.4° N, 11.4° E: paleocoordinates 38.8° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Posidonienschiefer Formation, Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• "Falciferum Shale" (Falciferum subzone)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray, carbonaceous marl

• Dark grey, laminated, bituminous marl; lower part with one dark grey, 8 × 12-cm-sized, poorly laminated bituminous limestone concretion (pellet packstone) with mollusk shell debris.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collection methods: Repository: Museum and Collection of the Geoscience Centre, University of Göttingen (GZG)

Primary reference: G. Arp, S. Gropengießer, C. Schulbert, D. Jung, and A. Reimer. 2021. Biostratigraphy and sequence stratigraphy of the Toarcian Ludwigskanal section (Franconian Alb, Southern Germany). Zitteliana 95:57-94 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228512: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.12.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Dactylioceras sp. Hyatt 1867 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Harpoceras falciferum Sowerby 1820 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Phylloceras heterophyllum Sowerby 1820 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Inoceramidae
"Pseudomytiloides dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia
"Pseudomytiloides dubius" = Parainoceramya dubia Sowerby 1826 clam