Quarry Winnberg, Sengenthal, Bed 28b, Franconian Alb, Bavaria (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.2° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 40.1° N, 19.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Sengenthal" Formation, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• P. athleta zone (K. spinosum subzone); "Ornaten-Ton (Ornatus-Clay)"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified siltstone

• dark, well bedded, argillaceous siltstone, 15 cm thick; with concretions, rich in fossils

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 62283: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Reineckeiidae
Collotia fraasi Oppel 1857 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Perisphinctes (Alligaticeras) latilinguatus, "Grossouvria (Grossouvria) sulcifera" = Choffatia, "Grossouvria (Poculisphinctes) sp." = Choffatia
"Grossouvria (Grossouvria) sulcifera" = Choffatia ammonite
"Grossouvria (Poculisphinctes) sp." = Choffatia Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kosmoceratidae
Kosmoceras cf. gemmatum Phillips 1835 ammonite
Kosmoceras rowlstonense Young and Bird 1822 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
"Paralcidia glabella" = Alcidia ammonite
Hecticoceras (? Orbignyceras) sp. Bonarelli 1893 ammonite
"Hecticoceras (Lunuloceras) spp." = Lunuloceras ammonite
listed as Hecticoceras (Lunuloceras/Brightia) spp.