Crocodile section, bed 20, Nagy-Pisznice Hill (Jurassic of Hungary)

Where: Hungary (47.7° N, 18.5° E: paleocoordinates 28.7° N, 27.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gradatus ammonoid zone, Kisgerecse Marl Formation, Variabilis (182.0 - 175.6 Ma)

• Clausus subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Eotvos Museum of Natural History of Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest

Primary reference: A. Galácz, G. Császár, B. Géczy and Z. Kovács. 2010. Ammonite stratigraphy of a Toarcian (Lower Jurassic) section on Nagy-Pisznice Hill (Gerecse Mts, Hungary). Central European Geology 53:311-342 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 147235: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.07.2013

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Calliphylloceras nilssoni Hebert 1866 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Phymatoceratidae
"Merlaites gradatus" = Brodieia
"Merlaites gradatus" = Brodieia ammonite