Landersdorf (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (49.1° N, 11.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• Dogger Gamma, Sowerbyi Beds

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified conglomerate

• basal conglomerate bank

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E. Schmidtill. 1951. Korallenbänke im Dogger Gamma bei Thalmässing (Mfr.) [Coral banks in the Dogger Gamma near Thalmässing]. Geologische Blätter für Nordost-Bayern und angrenzende Gebiete 1:49-57 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 87041: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 02.03.2009

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Thecosmilia gregaria M'Coy 1851 stony coral
Montlivaltia sp. Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Montlivaltia aff. sarthacensis d'Orbigny 1850 stony coral
Montlivaltia aff. caryophyllata Lamouroux 1821 stony coral
Montlivaltia aff. decipiens Goldfuss 1826 stony coral
Montlivaltia aff. trochoides Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Thamnasteriidae
"Thamnastraea terquemi" = Thamnasteria
"Thamnastraea terquemi" = Thamnasteria stony coral