Hohendorf-Pritzier active pit (WC collection) (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

Collection methods: Repository: private collection of Werner Canther

Primary reference: J. Lehmann, R. Hoffmann, H. G. Owen and W. Beckert. 2016. Cephalopoden aus unterkreidezeitlichen Geschieben der Region um Wolgast-Hohendorf, Vorpommern. Archiv für Geschiebekunde 7:401-530 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183556: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.01.2017

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Cleoniceratidae
? Grycia sp. Imlay 1961 ammonite