Male Karpaty Mts., Chtelnica localities 1-2, Bed 8 (Jurassic of Slovakia)

Where: Slovakia (48.6° N, 17.6° E: paleocoordinates 29.8° N, 24.4° E)

When: Late/Upper Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, glauconitic limestone

• glauconitic ammonite shell bed with phospatized lithoclasts

•greenish sandy limestones and grey crinoidal lime - stones with undulated bedding planes and green sandy glauconitic intercalation

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, original aragonite, original calcite, replaced with calcite, replaced with other

Primary reference: C. Meister, J. Schlögl, and M. Rakús. 2011. Sinemurian ammonites from Male Karpaty Mts., Western Carpathians, Slovakia. Part 1: Phylloceratoidea, Lytoceratoidea, Schlotheimiidae. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 259(1):25-88 [A. Kocsis/G. Harrison/A. Kocsis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195485: authorized by Adam Kocsis, entered by George William Harrison on 10.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Arietitidae
"Arnioceras ex gr. geometricum" = Arietites geometricus
"Arnioceras ex gr. geometricum" = Arietites geometricus Oppel 1856 ammonite