Steinbruch von Biburg Bank VI/5: Late/Upper Oxfordian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Nemodon (Nemodon) maceratus Boehm 1881
5 specimens
Stenocolpus biburgensis Yamani 1982
4 specimens
Bivalvia - Arcida - Arcidae
Barbatia (Barbatia) uhligi Boehm 1881
58 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) informal sp. 1 Meek 1864
Yamani 1983 1 specimen
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) informal sp. 2 Meek 1864
Yamani 1983 2 specimens
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) rigidus Sowerby 1818
Yamani 1983 6 specimens
Camptonectes (Camptonectes) auritus (Schlotheim 1813)
Yamani 1983 7 specimens
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Entoliidae
Cingentolium (Colpentolium) clipeus Yamani 1983
Yamani 1983 2 specimens
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pinnidae
Pinna (Pinna) lanceolata Sowerby 1821
1 specimen
Bivalvia - Pterioida
Cingentolium (Cingentolium) cingulatum (Goldfuss 1835)
Yamani 1983 13 specimens
recombined as Neoentolium cingulatum
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bavaria County:Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen
Coordinates: 49.0° North, 11.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.2° North, 19.4° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Oxfordian Ammonoid zone: Idoceras planula
Age range of interval:157.90000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Schwammkalke im Steinbruch von Biburg
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:yellow lithified chalk
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Die Bankfazies besteht hier aus mikritischen, hellen, gelblichen, fossilreichen Kalken mit reichlich Fossildetritus und Tuberoiden.
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:95774
Authorizer:R. Krause Enterer:R. Krause
Modifier:M. Clapham
Created:2010-04-27 16:22:16 Last modified:2017-08-04 15:50:08
Access level:the public Released:2010-04-27 16:22:16
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

32525. S. A. Yamani. 1982. Die Bivalvenfauna der Schwammkalke von Biburg (Oberoxford, Suedliche Frankenalb) Pteriomorphia I. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fuer Palaeontologie und Historische Geologie 22:19-34 [R. Krause/R. Krause]

Secondary references:

32539 G. Schairer and S. A. Yamani. 1982. Die Schwammkalke von Biburg bei Weissenburg/Bayern (Oberoxford, Suedliche Frankenalb) Allgemeine Uebersicht. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fuer Palaeontologie und Historische Geologie 22:19-34 [R. Krause/R. Krause]
32541 S. A. Yamani. 1983. Die Bivalvenfauna der Schwammkalke von Biburg (Oberoxford, Suedliche Frankenalb) Pteriomorphia II. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung fuer Palaeontologie und Historische Geologie 23:3-33 [R. Krause/R. Krause]