Where: Germany (48.7° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 18.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Obere Felsenkalk Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• White Jura (Malm) epsilon. Malm Ɛ Schmid, Leinfelder & Günter Schweigert (2005: Zitteliana B26 31-41) note that old Weißjura epsilon is the Obere Felsenkalk.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: poorly lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the USNM

Primary reference: G. A. Cooper. 1973. Fossil and recent Cancellothyridacea (Brachiopoda). Tohoku University, Science Reports, 2nd Series (Geology), Special Volume 6:371-390 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 135555: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.10.2012

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