Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.9° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonoticeras hybonotum ammonoid zone, Solnhofen Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Bischof collection (specimens supposedly at University of Heidelberg, according to Deichmüller 1886, but probably lost according to Fleck et al., 2003).

Primary reference: C. Giebel. 1857. Zur Fauna des lithographischen Schiefers von Solenhofen. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaft 9:373-388 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 152880: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2013, edited by Jered Karr

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