Öchselberg near Breitenhill (Jurassic to of Germany)

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
 Decapoda - Goniodromitidae
Pithonoton sp. von Meyer 1842 crab
Pithonoton cf. serratum Beurlen 1929 crab