Where: Germany (48.2° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 17.5° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Euaspidoceras hypselum ammonoid zone, Impressamergel Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Epipeltoceras semimammatum horizon, lower part of the Hypselum zone. The specimen was picked up from scree at the base of a small slope, which exclusively contained sediments of the semimammatum Horizon and where exclusively ammonites indicative of that horizon were found.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified, gray, green marl
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the SMNS
Primary reference: M. W. Maisch and A. T. Matzke. 2018. First record of the ammonite genus Graefenbergites (Perisphinctoidea: Passendorferiinae) from the late Oxfordian of the Swabian Alb (SW Germany). Palaeodiversity 11:167-172 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 197602: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 17.11.2018
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Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Taramelliceras pichleri Oppel 1863 ammonite | |
Graefenbergites cf. arancensis Melendez Hevia 1989 ammonite | |
Microbiplices microbiplex Quenstedt 1887 ammonite | |
"Clambites hypselum" = Euaspidoceras (Clambites)
"Clambites hypselum" = Euaspidoceras (Clambites) ammonite | |
Amoeboceras alternans von Buch 1831 ammonite |