Also known as Sophia Jacoba 6, Germany

Where: Germany (51.1° N, 6.3° E: paleocoordinates 45.0° N, 3.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Hückelhoven Formation, Paleocene (66.0 - 56.0 Ma)

• "[The material] comes from a 0.5 m thick section covering the whole Paleocene sequence between 100 and 110 m of depth."

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: "The material was collected from waste material of the shaft Sophia Jacoba 6."

Primary reference: H. -J. Anderson. 1973. Die Fauna der palaeocaenen Hueckelhovener Schichten aus dem Schacht Sophia Jacoba 6 (Erkelenzer Horst, Niederrheinische Bucht). Geologica et Palaeontologica 7:175-187 [M. Patzkowsky/K. Layou]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 3114: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Karen Layou on 26.07.1999

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