Farming field in Hohendorf-Pritzier (Cretaceous of Germany)

Where: Germany (54.0° N, 13.7° E: paleocoordinates 43.1° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Albian (112.0 - 109.0 Ma)

• Proleymeriella schrammeni Zone, the Leymeriella tardefurcata Zone and possibly the earliest Douvilleiceras mammillatum Superzone. Material derived from glacial erratic

•boulders, called geschiebes in the following, after the German term for rock material that has been re-deposited by glacial and/or fluvioglacial forces.

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, glauconitic sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Werner Beckert

• Repository: Geowissenschaftliche Sammlung of the University of Bremen, northern Germany (abbreviation GSUB).

Primary reference: J. Lehmann, H. G. Owen, and W. Beckert. 2013. A new ammonite fauna from NE Germany - evidence for an Early Albian cooling and the initial transgression in the Danish-Polish Trough. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 268:199-235 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183541: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Acanthohoplitidae
Hypacanthoplites elegans Fritel 1906 ammonite