Öchselberg near Breitenhill: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian, Germany
collected by M. Wulf

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Goniodromitidae
Pithonoton sp. von Meyer 1842
Pithonoton cf. serratum (Beurlen 1929)
original and current combination Goniodromites serratus
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 11.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° North, 19.6° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian - Early/Lower Tithonian
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 146.30000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Painten Member:Öchselberg
Stratigraphy comments: The exposed lithographic limestones belong to the more biodetritic Öchselberg Member of the Painten Formation (Zeiss, 1977, Fig. 8), the age of which is around the Kimmeridgian-Tithonian boundary.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination lithified lime mudstone
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:M. Wulf
Collection method comments: Repository: Jura-Museum Eichstätt
Metadata
Database number:127333
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer Enterer:E. Johnson
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2012-05-09 23:53:25 Last modified:2021-08-15 19:53:43
Access level:the public Released:2012-05-09 23:53:25
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
41437.decapod A. Garassino, A. De Angeli, and G. Schweigert. 2005. Brachyurans from the Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian-Tithonian) of Pfalzpaint and Breitenhill (Bavaria, S Germany). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 146(1):69-78 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson/M. Clapham]