Egesheim Quarry, bed Pk 3 (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.1° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 17.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: beckeri ammonoid zone, Nusplingen Plattenkalk Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed Pk 3 (corresponds with bed L in the Nusplingen quarry), 80 cm from the top of the bed; beckeri zone, ulmense subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lithified lime mudstone and lithified siliciclastic

• within a thin siliceous layer

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Böttcher and C. J. Duffin. 2000. The neoselachian shark Sphenodus from the Late Kimmeridgian (Late Jurassic) of Nusplingen and Egesheim (Baden-Württemberg, Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde B, Geologie und Paläontologie 283:1-31 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 90447: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 24.07.2009

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Taxonomic list

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Chondrichthyes
 Synechodontiformes - Orthacodontidae
Sphenodus macer
Sphenodus macer elasmobranch