Where: Germany (49.2° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.4° N, 20.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Berching" Formation, Early/Lower Bajocian to Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 167.7 Ma)

• St. humphriesianum zone (D. romani subzone) and G. garantiana zone (G. dichotoma subzone)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. H. Callomon, G. Dietl, A. Galacz, H. Gradl, H.-J. Niederhöfer and A. Zeiss. 1987. Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B 132:1-53 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62200: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.07.2006

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