Where: Germany (50.0° N, 10.6° E: paleocoordinates 22.5° N, 15.3° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Estherienschichten Member (Grabfeld Formation), Carnian (237.0 - 228.0 Ma)
• Thickness: 25 cm; Modiola-Bank
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified marl and bioturbated claystone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: cast
Primary reference: G. Geyer. 1987. Die Fossilien der Modiola-Bank Frankens (Karn, Gipskeuper). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen 173(3):271-302 [W. Kiessling/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 47402: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 24.02.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Gnathostomata | |
| |
Osteichthyes | |
"Saurichthys cf. acuminatus" = Birgeria acuminata
"Saurichthys cf. acuminatus" = Birgeria acuminata Agassiz 1843 | |
Bivalvia | |
Modiolus (Sanda) semicircularis n. subgen. n. sp., Modiolus (Modiolus) transiens
Modiolus (Sanda) semicircularis n. subgen. n. sp. mussel | |
Cycadites | |
? Cycadites sp. Schenk 1864 |