Satteldorf-Neidenfels near Crailsheim, sample MHI 2080/4 (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.2° N, 10.1° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 17.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Meißner Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)

• Upper part of Meißner Formation, a few meters above MHI 2080/2. Weyeri to dorsoplanus biozones.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• The influence of the nearby coastline is even more prominent than in deeper parts of the Meißner Formation. The thickly bedded shelly limestones contain mixed endobenthic and epibenthic faunal elements devoid of stenohaline crinoids and echinoids.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Muschelkalkmuseum Ingelfingen, Germany

Primary reference: M. Zatoń, H. Hagdorn, and T. Borszcz. 2014. Microconchids of the species Microconchus valvatus (Münster in Goldfuss, 1831) from the Upper Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic) of Germany. Palaeobiodiversity and Palaeoenvironments 94:453-461 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 160524: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 23.08.2014

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Taxonomic list

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Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Pectinoidae
Pleuronectites laevigatus
Pleuronectites laevigatus Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Tentaculita
 Microconchida -
Microconchus valvatus
Microconchus valvatus Munster 1831