Railway tunnel north of Niederau-Oberau (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Sachsen, Germany (51.2° N, 13.6° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 12.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Dölzschen Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• mid-Upper Cenomanian, lower Dölzschen Formation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: MMG: Senckenberg Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden, Museum für Mineralogie und Geologie.

Primary reference: M. Wilmsen and E. Nagm. 2013. Upper Cenomanian-Lower Turonian ammonoids from the Saxonian Cretaceous (lower Elbtal Group, Saxony, Germany). Bulletin of Geosciences 88:647-674 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172055: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Hamitidae
Hamites cimarronensis Kauffman and Powell 1977 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Baculitidae
Sciponoceras gracile Shumard 1860 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Acanthoceratidae
Pseudocalycoceras angolaense Spath 1931 ammonite
Euomphaloceras septemseriatum Cragin 1893 ammonite