Bayreuth, Bavaria, Germany (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as Reef 3163

Where: Bavaria, Germany (50.0° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.7° N, 18.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lingula Dolomite Member (Erfurt Formation), Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, dolomitic lime mudstone and lithified, dolomitic bindstone

• Small bioherm (0.25 x 0.7 m) on top of dolmicrites in a clastic (deltaic) sequence

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite, replaced with dolomite

Collection methods: peel or thin section

Primary reference: G. H. Bachmann. 2002. A lamellibranch-stromatolite bioherm in the Lower Keuper (Ladinian, Middle Triassic), south Germany. Facies 46:83-88 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 23243: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 11.07.2002, edited by Bethany Allen

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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"Stromatolite" indet.
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
? Costatoria ? goldfussi
? Costatoria ? goldfussi Alberti 1830 clam
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
"Monotis albertii n. sp." = Leptochondria albertii
"Monotis albertii n. sp." = Leptochondria albertii Goldfuss 1838 scallop
 Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis ostracina
Placunopsis ostracina Schlotheim 1820 scallop
Demospongiae
 Lithistida -
Lithistida indet.