Gelmeroda near Weimar (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Gelmerode

Where: Germany (51.0° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 17.4° N, 17.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nodosus zone, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Described as being "[upper Muschelkalk (Nodosus-Platten)]" in age (Frech 1912), assumed to be Ladinian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: F. Frech. 1912. Neue Zweischaler und Brachiopoden aus der Bakonyer Trias [New bivalves and brachiopods from the Bakony Trias]. Resultate der Wissenschaftlichen Erforschung des Balatonsees, II Band: Paläontologie der Umgebung des Balatonsees 1(2):1-138 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 203243: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 07.08.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
"Ctenodonta elliptica" = Leda elliptica
"Ctenodonta elliptica" = Leda elliptica Goldfuss 1837 pointed nut clam