Where: Bavaria, Germany (48.9° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.2° N, 19.6° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonotum ammonoid zone, Solnhofen Platenkalk Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Zandt section

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: H. Hess. 1999. Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Plattenkalk of Bavaria, Germany. H. Hess, W.I. Ausich C.E. Brett & M.J. Simms (eds), Fossil Crinoids. Cambridge University Press 216-224 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58604: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 16.02.2006, edited by Richard Butler, Jonathan Tennant, Evangelos Vlachos and Rosa Valdez

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