Unterstürmig brick pit (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.8° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 18.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Amaltheus Shale Formation, Spinatum (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Traugott Haubold; reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: C. J. Duffin. 1996. Holocephalans in the Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde in Stuttgart 4. The earliest German chimaeroid. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 240:1-10 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139794: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.02.2013, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Chimaeriformes - Callorhinchidae
Brachymylus latus n. sp. Duffin 1996 plownose chimaera
SMNS 80008
Gastropoda
 Sorbeoconcha - Buccinidae
"Pterotrachea liassica" = Pterotrachea ceratophagus
"Pterotrachea liassica" = Pterotrachea ceratophagus Quenstedt 1858 true whelk