Where: Bavaria, Germany (50.0° N, 11.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.3° N, 23.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Orthosphinctes polygyratus ammonoid zone, Dietfurt Formation, Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• 2.4 m above Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite

Primary reference: T. Hornung. 2002. Kondensierte Ammonitenbänke im Beckenbereich des basalen Kimmeridge der Nördlichen Frankenalb (Alter Steinbruch Ludwag, Ofr.). Geologische Blätter von Nordost-Bayern 52:195-242 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 212932: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 23.08.2020, edited by Bethany Allen

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