Where: Germany (48.9° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 19.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Öchselberg Member (Painten Formation), Late/Upper Kimmeridgian to Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 145.0 Ma)
• The exposed lithographic limestones belong to the more biodetritic Öchselberg Member of the Painten Formation (Zeiss, 1977, Fig. 8), the age of which is around the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian boundary.
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 127333: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Evaline Johnson on 09.05.2012
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Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
Pithonoton sp. von Meyer 1842 crab
Pithonoton cf. serratum Beurlen 1929 crab |