Where: Westphalia, Germany (52.2° N, 7.9° E: paleocoordinates 42.1° N, 8.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Watinoceras devonense ammonoid zone, Hesseltal Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Specimen GSUB V2302/1 and 2 was collected in situ from a bedding plane about 25 cm below the top of bed 143 on the southern slope of the Galgenknapp quarry

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, gray marl

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Udo Resch

• Repository: Geosciences Collection of the University of Bremen, Germany (GSUB).

Primary reference: J. Cawley, J. Lehmann, F. Wiese and J. Kriwet. 2020. Njoerdichthys dyckerhoffi gen. et sp. nov. (Pycnodontiformes, lower Turonian) northward migration caused by the Cretaceous Thermal Maximum. Cretaceous Research 116:1-22 [M. Clapham/J. Mordaunt]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221234: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Josh Mordaunt on 17.07.2021

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