Kotouč Quarry, locality 4 (level 8), Štramberk (fallauxi zone) (Jurassic of Czech Republic)

Also known as Kotouc Quarry, Stramberk

Where: Czech Republic (49.6° N, 18.1° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 33.7° N, 29.0° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Semiformicersa fallauxi ammonoid zone, Stramberk Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• Simoceras admirandum/Simoceras biruncinatum Subzone in the upper part of Semiformiceras fallauxi Zone (higher part of the lower Tithonian)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified reef rocks

• Soft, white-grey limestones with boulders and lumpy limestones, irregularly distributed, usually strangely crumbled up to crushed.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Novy Jicin Regional Museum

Primary reference: Z. Vašíček and P. Skupien. 2016. Tithonian-early Berriasian perisphinctoid ammonites from the Štramberk Limestone at Kotouč Quarry near Štramberk, Outer Western Carpathians (Czech Republic). Cretaceous Research 64:12-29 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 177618: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.04.2016

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Simoceratidae
Simoceras admirandum
Simoceras admirandum Zittel 1869 ammonite