Tongrube Mistelgau, Opalinum Zone, Bavaria (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.9° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Opalinuston Formation, Opalinum (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified claystone

• clay pit

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. Gründel. 1998. Archaeo- und Caenogastropoda aus dem Dogger Deutschlands und Nordpolens. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) (260)39pp. [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 58305: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 31.01.2006, edited by Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Zygopleuridae
 Sorbeoconcha - Procerithiidae
Procerithium compactum n. sp.1 Grundel 1999 snail
 Sorbeoconcha - Aporrhaidae
Toarctocera subpunctata2 Münster 1844 snail