Ortenberg, first abandoned quarry (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.2° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 39.3° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Epipeltoceras bimammatum ammonoid zone, Impressamergel Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Co-occurs with abundant specimens of Epipeltoceras bimammatum. Hence, the specimen can be ascribed to the bimammatum faunal horizon of the Late Oxfordian Bimammatum Zone.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by P. Zugel in 1988

• Repository: GPIT (Tubingen)

Primary reference: M. W. Maisch and A. Salfinger-Maisch. 2016. First record of the lytoceratid Protetragonites Hyatt, 1900 (Cephalopoda: Ammonoidea) from the Upper Jurassic of southwestern Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 280:183-192 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 178685: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.05.2016

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Protetragonitidae
Protetragonites zuegeli n. sp. Maisch and Salfinger-Maisch 2016 ammonite