Where: Germany (48.0° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.1° N, 17.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Jurensismergel Formation, Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)
• Bed at a depth of 93.8 m with a thickness of 0.1 m; aalensis zone; mactra subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Collection methods: core,
Primary reference: W. Ohmert, V. Allia C. Arias et al. 1996. Die Grenzziehung Unter-/Mitteljura (Toarcium/Aalenium) bei Wittnau und Fuentelsaz [Determinig the boundary between Toarcium/Aalenium near Wittnau and Fuentelsaz]. Informationen Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg 8:1-52 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59435: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 03.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Foraminifera | |
"Marginulina breviformis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina)
"Marginulina breviformis" = Cristellaria (Marginulina) | |
Nodosariata | |
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Cephalopoda | |
Dumortieria costula, "Cotteswoldia bifax" = Pleydellia, Cotteswoldia mactra, Cotteswoldia aalensis, Cotteswoldia subcompta
Dumortieria costula Reinecke 1818 ammonite
"Cotteswoldia bifax" = Pleydellia ammonite
Cotteswoldia mactra Dumortier 1874 ammonite
Cotteswoldia subcompta Branco 1879 ammonite |