Neustift granite quarry (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.6° N, 13.2° E: paleocoordinates 48.8° N, 11.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Burdigalian (20.4 - 16.0 Ma)

• Late Burdigalian. Papp & Steininger (1973) suggested an Early Ottnangian age for the sediments based on the occurrence of Pecten herrmannseni. This species, however, can be traced throughout the entire Ottnangian (Mandic & Steininger 2003, Mandic 2007). According to Hagn et al. (1981) and Wenger (1987), the benthic foraminifer fauna of the basal strata at Neustift suggests a Middle Ottnangian age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; poorly lithified sandstone

• Shallow marine, high-energy deposits, which in part formed directly at the beach or slightly below.
• Poorly lithified based on fossil preservation

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BSP

Primary reference: M. A. Bitner and S. Schneider. 2009. The Upper Burdigalian (Ottnangian) brachiopod fauna from the northern coast of the Upper Marine Molasse Sea in Bavaria, southern Germany. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 254:117-133 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 190206: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 03.12.2017

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Taxonomic list

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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Terebratulidae
? Terebratula sp., Gurlarnella waltli
? Terebratula sp. Müller 1776
Gurlarnella waltli Bitner and Schneider 2009