Vicinity of Eichstätt (SMNS collection): Early Tithonian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca - Decapoda
Winkler 2014
Winkler 2015
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Penaeidae
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bayern
Coordinates: 48.9° North, 11.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.1° North, 23.9° East (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Jurassic Epoch: Late Jurassic
Stage: Tithonian 10 m.y. bin: Jurassic 6
Key time interval: Early Tithonian
Age range of interval: 149.2 - 145.06 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Eichstätt
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Eichstätt Formation, Obere Schiefer Member (see ZEISS1977); Lower Tithonian, early Hybonotum Zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination "limestone"
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal Tectonic setting:passive margin
Geology comments: Solnhofen-type limestones are thought to represent lagoonal environments with rather hostile conditions at the seafloor
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Metadata
Also known as:Eichstatt
Database number:228771
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:R. Valdez
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2023-01-05 18:25:16 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2023-01-05 18:25:16
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
83583. G. Schweigert. 2011. The decapod crustaceans of the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Limestones: A historical review and some recent discoveries. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 260:131-140 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

83593 N. Winkler. 2014. A new caridean shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen Lithographic Limestones of Schernfeld (South Germany). Zitteliana 83-90 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez]
83594 N. Winkler. 2015. Revision of the fossil crustacean Blaculla brevipes, and description of a new caridean shrimp (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dendrobranchiata) from the Upper Jurassic Solnhofen lithographic limestones of Schernfeld (southern Germany). Zitteliana 31-39 [M. Clapham/R. Valdez]