2.5 km N of the town of Sigmaringen (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.1° N, 9.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 17.8° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Jurassic (161.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• Upper Jurassic bioclastic beds of the socalled “Nollhof-Fazies” of ROLL (1931), which are latest Kimmeridgian (Beckeri Zone, Ulmense Subzone) in age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

• Upper Jurassic bioclastic beds

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: G. Schweigert and J. Koppka. 2011. Decapods (Crustacea: Brachyura) from the Jurassic of Germany and Lithuania, with descriptions of new species of Planoprosopon and Tanidromites. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 260:221-235 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 228769: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Rosa Valdez on 05.01.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Tanidromitidae
Tanidromites sculpta Quenstedt 1857 crab