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

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Taxonomic list

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