Holzmaden (Tubingen collection) (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.6° N, 9.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.8° N, 17.9° E)

When: Early/Lower Toarcian (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Institut und Museum für Geologie und Paläontologie der Universität Tübingen (GPIT)

Primary reference: D. Thies. 1992. A new species of Palaeospinax (Chondrichthyes, Neoselachii) from the Lower Jurassic Posidonia Shale of southern Germany. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 66:137-146 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 139237: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.02.2013

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Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Hexanchiformes - Pseudonotidanidae
"Palaeospinax politus n. sp." = Pseudonotidanus politus
"Palaeospinax politus n. sp." = Pseudonotidanus politus Thies 1992 elasmobranch
GPIT 1702
 Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus hauffianus Fraas 1895 elasmobranch
Quenstedt's Hybodus reticulatus Agassiz