Also known as Reef 3248

Where: Germany (48.5° N, 9.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 18.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• eudoxus zone (late Middle Kimmeridgian). Collection is from one horizon within sponge-crust biohermal limestones

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified reef rocks

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• 75% of fauna is composed of sponges

Primary reference: W. Werner, R. R. Leinfelder, F. T. Fürsich and M. Krautter. 1994. Comparative palaeoecology of marly coralline sponge-bearing reefal associations from the Kimmeridgina (Upper Jurassic) of Portugal and southwestern Germany. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg 172:381-397 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 34650: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 15.09.2003

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