Quarry Winnberg, Sengenthal, Bed 14, Franconian Alb, Bavaria (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (49.2° N, 11.5° E: paleocoordinates 39.8° N, 20.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: "Berching" Formation, Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• P. hodsoni zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl

• grey-brown argillaceous oolithic marl, 5-10 cm thick, contains autochthonous fossils and pebbles of ammonite fragments derived by submarine erosion

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. H. Callomon, G. Dietl, A. Galacz, H. Gradl, H.-J. Niederhöfer and A. Zeiss. 1987. Zur Stratigraphie des Mittel- und unteren Oberjuras in Sengenthal bei Neumarkt /Opf. (Fränkische Alb) [On the stratigraphy of the Middle and early Upper Jurassic at Sengenthal, near Neumarkt/Opf. (Franconian Alb)]. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B 132:1-53 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62255: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 17.07.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Tulitidae
Tulites (Rugiferites) sp., Bullatimorphites sp., Morrisiceras sp.
 Ammonitida - Parkinsoniidae
? Epistrenoceras sp., "Parkinsonia (Oraniceras) sp." = Oraniceras
"Parkinsonia (Oraniceras) sp." = Oraniceras ammonite
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Siemiradzkia sp., Procerites sp., Procerites aff. hodsoni, Wagnericeras sp.
Siemiradzkia sp. Hyatt 1900 ammonite
Procerites sp. Siemiradzki 1898 ammonite
Procerites aff. hodsoni Arkell 1958 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
"Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) serrigerus" = Paroecotraustes serrigerus, Oxycerites costatus, Oxycerites oxus
"Oecotraustes (Paroecotraustes) serrigerus" = Paroecotraustes serrigerus Waagen 1869 ammonite
Oxycerites oxus Buckman 1926 ammonite