Where: Germany (52.3° N, 11.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.6° N, 16.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spinatum (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Hawskerense Subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collected by Krause

Collection methods: chemical, sieve,

• Material treated with with H2O2 and sieved. Repository: Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaftlichen und Rohstoffe/Niedersächsisches Landesamt für Bodenforschung (BGR/NLfB)

Primary reference: M. Jäger. 1985. Die Crinoiden aus dem Pliensbachium (mittlerer Lias) von Rottorf am Klei und Empelde (Süd-Niedersachsen). Bericht der Naturhistorischen Gesellschaft zu Hannover 128:71-151 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 162048: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.09.2014

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