Egesheim Quarry, bed Pk 3: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Orthacodontidae
Sphenodus macer
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates: 48.1° North, 8.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 17.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian Ammonoid zone: beckeri
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nusplingen Plattenkalk
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed Pk 3 (corresponds with bed L in the Nusplingen quarry), 80 cm from the top of the bed; beckeri zone, ulmense subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: lithified "siliciclastic"
Lithology description: within a thin siliceous layer
Environment:lagoonal
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:90447
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:vertebrate
Created:2009-07-24 02:38:26 Last modified:2009-07-24 05:39:31
Access level:the public Released:2009-07-24 02:38:26
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
30414. 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]