Meißen-Zscheila (Köhler collection, Mittelcenomanium) (Cretaceous of Germany)

Also known as Meissen

Where: Sachsen, Germany (51.2° N, 13.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 12.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cunningtoniceras inerme ammonoid zone, Meißen Formation, Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Lower Middle Cenomanian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, red conglomerate

Size class: macrofossils

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

Primary reference: M. Wilmsen and E. Nagm. 2014. Kreide-Fossilien in Sachsen, Teil 1, 7. Ammoniten. Geologica Saxonica 60:201-240 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 172073: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Turrilitidae
Turrilites costatus Lamarck 1801 ammonite