Kronsmoor, mB628-F630 (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (53.9° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 46.4° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Belemnella sumensis other zone, Early/Lower Maastrichtian (70.6 - 66.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, white chalk

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Klaus Esser

• Repository: collection of Klaus J.K. Esser (repository KJKE + no.) and will later be transferred to the collection of the Bundesanstalt für Geologie und Rohstoffe (BGR), Hannover

Primary reference: M. Wilmsen and K. J. K. Esser. 2004. Latest Campanian to Early Maastrichtian (Cretaceous) nautiloids from the white chalk of Kronsmoor, northern Germany. Acta Geologica Polonica 54(4):489-498 [M. Clapham/K. Okamoto]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 165531: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Kristina Okamoto on 21.01.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Nautilidae
Cymatoceras patens Kner 1848 nautiloid