Profil Mistelgau (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Bavaria, Germany (49.9° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schicht 63-53 Member (Jurensismergel Formation), Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

• In the German basin (Germanisches Becken), located at the northern margin of the Thetys, clayey-marly sediments have been deposited.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. Schulbert. 2001. Die Ammonitenfauna und Stratigraphie der Tongrube Mistelgau bei Bayreuth (Oberfranken). Beihefte zu den Berichten der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Bayreuth e.V 4:1-183 [F. Fursich/S. Hicks/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51818: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Simone Hicks on 21.06.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
"Calliphylloceras supraliasicum" = Phylloceras supraliasicum
"Calliphylloceras supraliasicum" = Phylloceras supraliasicum Pompeckj 1893 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Pleydellia costulata, Pleydellia leura, "Cotteswoldia tenuicostata" = Pleydellia, Cotteswoldia aalensis, Cotteswoldia mactra, Cotteswoldia subcompta, Cotteswoldia fluitans, Cotteswoldia distans, Hudlestonia serrodens, Dumortieria sp., Phlyseogrammoceras cf. dispansiforme
Pleydellia costulata Zieten 1830 ammonite
Pleydellia leura Buckman 1890 ammonite
"Cotteswoldia tenuicostata" = Pleydellia ammonite
Cotteswoldia aalensis Zieten 1832 ammonite
=aalensis distans
Cotteswoldia mactra Dumortier 1874 ammonite
Cotteswoldia subcompta Branco 1879 ammonite
Cotteswoldia fluitans Dumortier 1874 ammonite
Cotteswoldia distans Buckman 1890 ammonite
Hudlestonia serrodens Quenstedt 1846 ammonite
Dumortieria sp. ammonite
Phlyseogrammoceras cf. dispansiforme Wunstorf 1904 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
"Pachylytoceras wrighti" = Pleurolytoceras wrighti, "Pachylytoceras hircinum" = Pleurolytoceras hircinum
"Pachylytoceras wrighti" = Pleurolytoceras wrighti Buckman 1905 ammonite
"Pachylytoceras hircinum" = Pleurolytoceras hircinum Schlotheim 1820 ammonite
 Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
"Cenoceras intermedius" = Cenoceras intermedium
"Cenoceras intermedius" = Cenoceras intermedium Sowerby 1816