Where: Bavaria, Germany (49.9° N, 11.5° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 39.4° N, 30.7° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jurensismergel Formation, Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)
• ammonoid zones: Grammoceras thouarsense, Hammatoceras insigne, Dumortieria levesquei, Cotteswoldia aalensis
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: J. Gründel, A. Nützel, and C. Schulbert. 2009. Toarctocera (Gastropoda, Aporrhaidae): a new genus from the Jurassic (Toarcian/Aalenian) of south Germany and the early evolutionary history of the family Aporrhaidae. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83:533-543 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92959: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 18.12.2009
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Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Toarctocera subpunctata Münster 1844 snail |