Bed St-B 8b, Wochenberg hill: Murchisonae, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Oxytomidae
Meleagrinella elegans
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Inoceramidae
Mytiloceramus sp.
spelled with current rank as Inoceramus (Mytiloceramus)
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Graphoceratidae
Staufenia discoidea (Quenstedt 1886)
discoidea alpha
Brasilia howarthi (Geczy 1967)
Brasilia theobaldi (Geczy 1967)
Brasilia falcatiformis (Geczy 1967)
Brasilia baldii (Geczy 1967)
Ludwigia armipotens (Buckman 1899)
Ludwigia tuberata (Buckman 1899)
Ludwigia reflua (Buckman 1904)
Ludwigia murchisonae (Sowerby 1829)
Ludwigia subtuberculata Rieber 1963
Ludwigia depilata (Buckman 1925)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.2° North, 8.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.7° North, 18.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Aalenian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Murchisonae
Age range of interval:174.70000 - 170.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Achdorf
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Staufensis-Bank. Discoidea alpha horizon, Murchisonae subzone.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified argillaceous,sandy "limestone"
Lithology description: Arenaceous marly limestone, intercalated with layers of shell debris
Environment:carbonate indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Metadata
Database number:228475
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2022-12-09 00:50:30 Last modified:2022-12-09 00:50:30
Access level:the public Released:2022-12-09 00:50:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

83336. V. Dietze, A. Hofbauer, H. Rieber, N. Wannenmacher, and G. Schweigert. 2022. Ammonites and stratigraphy of the Achdorf Formation (Braunjura Group; Aalenian) at the Wochenberg hill near Schömberg-Schörzingen (W Swabian Alb, SW Germany). Zitteliana 96:69-101 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]