Heidenheim (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.7° N, 10.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 18.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Jurassic (163.5 - 145.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1964. Etude stratigraphique et paleontologique des formations a madreporaires du Jurassique superieur du Jura et de l'est du Basin de Paris. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 100:1-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93216: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 08.01.2010, edited by Grace Varnham

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Margarastreopsis confluens n. gen. stony coral
Goldfussastrea heidenheimensis n. gen. n. sp. Beauvais 1964 stony coral
Reptilia
 Loricata - Metriorhynchidae
Dakosaurus maximus Plieninger 1846 marine crocodile