Where: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (54.1° N, 13.1° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 18.9° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Dactylioceras tenuicostatum zone, Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• unnamed "bituminous shale bed" equivalent to Posidonian Shale (Posidonienschiefer); Lias epsilon level = lowest Toarcian; also lower part of Harpoceras falcifer Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, carbonaceous shale

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, concretion

Collected by Krempien

Primary reference: W. Zessin. 1987. Variabilität, Merkmalswandel und Phylogenie der Elcanidae im Jungpaläozoikum und Mesozoikum und die Phylogenie der Ensifera. Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 34(1-3):1-76 [M. Clapham/J. Karr/J. Karr]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 114994: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 26.08.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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