South-Germany, Heselwangen bei Balingen (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.3° N, 8.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.5° N, 18.4° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Toarcian (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite, replaced with limonite

Primary reference: R. Hengsbach. 1985. Die Ammoniten-Gattung Catacoeloceras im S-franzoesischen und S-deutschen Ober-Toarcien. The ammonite genus Catacoeloceras in the upper Toarcian of southern France and southern Germany. Senckenbergiana lethaea 65(4/6):347-411 [M. Aberhan/S. Nurnberg/S. Nurnberg]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38629: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Sabine Nürnberg on 26.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Dactylioceratidae
Catacoeloceras crassum Young and Bird 1828 ammonite
Catacoeloceras engeli Monestier 1931 ammonite
forma jordani
Catacoeloceras raquinianum d'Orbigny 1845 ammonite
including forms crassiformis & confecta