Where: Bavaria, Germany (49.9° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.5° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schicht 21-20 Member (Jurensismergel Formation), Toarcian (182.7 - 174.1 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: bulk, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. Schulbert. 2001. Die Ammonitenfauna und Stratigraphie der Tongrube Mistelgau bei Bayreuth (Oberfranken). Beihefte zu den Berichten der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Bayreuth e.V 4:1-183 [F. Fursich/S. Hicks/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 51850: authorized by Franz Fursich, entered by Simone Hicks on 22.06.2005

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