Where: Germany (48.9° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 19.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonoticeras beckeri ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• The ammonite fauna of Pfalzpaint comprises Neochetoceras bous (Oppel), Silicisphinctes irregularis (Ohmert & Zeiss) and Taramelliceras rebouletianum (Fontannes) thus suggesting a latest Kimmeridgian age (Beckeri Zone, uppermost Ulmense Subzone).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by M. Wulf

• Repository: Jura-Museum Eichstätt

Primary reference: A. Garassino, A. De Angeli, and G. Schweigert. 2005. Brachyurans from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) of Pfalzpaint and Breitenhill (Bavaria, S Germany). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 146(1):69-78 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 127331: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 09.05.2012

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