Bed 102, Am Danebrock - Crashkurs-Bahn clay pit, near Velpe (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (52.3° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 14.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Davoei (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Dated to early Pliensbachian Davoei Zone with the help of several coexisting age-diagnostic ammonites

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by R.W. Wittler; reposited in the SMNS

• Repository: Ruhrland Museums Essen (decapod at SMNS)

Primary reference: F. A. Wittler and R. Roth. 2003. Fauna und Biostratigraphie im Lias gamma/delta Grenzbereich südwestlich Lotte bei Osnabrück (Jura, NW-Deutschland). Arbeitskreis Paläontologie Hannover 31:14-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159243: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 29.07.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
"Androgynoceras maculatum" = Aegoceras maculatum Young and Bird 1822 ammonite
Androgynoceras capricornus Schlotheim 1820 ammonite
Liparoceras cheltiense Murchison 1834 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Prodactylioceras davoei Sowerby 1822 ammonite
and ssp. nodosissimum
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Coleiidae
Coleia brodiei Woodward 1866 decapod
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Pentacrinitidae
? Seirocrinus sp. Gislen 1924 Sea lily