Where: Germany (49.2° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 20.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: "Berching" Formation, Early/Lower Bathonian to Early/Lower Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• Z. zigzag zone (O. yeovilensis and A. tenuiplicatus subzones)and T. subcontractus and M. morrisi zones in the upper third
• 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 62252: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.07.2006
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