Where: Germany (48.0° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 17.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Opalinuston Formation, Early/Lower Aalenian (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• bed at depth 25.6 m with a thickness of 2.7 m; opalinum zone; opalinum 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 59507: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 04.04.2006

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