Where: Germany (47.8° N, 12.6° E: paleocoordinates 33.0° N, 18.3° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Hettangian to Hettangian (201.3 - 190.8 Ma)
• Specimen was found loose, although Pompeckj argued that it came from the Koessen Formation. The species has never again been reported from Rhaetian deposits and is widely considered to be an Early Jurassic schlotheimiid.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BSP
Primary reference: J. F. Pompeckj. 1895. Ammoniten des Rhät. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Palaeontologie 1895(2):1-46 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 173618: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 04.10.2015
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Hesperites clarae n. gen. n. sp.
Hesperites clarae n. gen. n. sp. Pompeckj 1895 ammonite |