Where: Germany (52.1° N, 8.3° E: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 8.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Metoicoceras geslinianum ammonoid zone, Hesseltal Formation, Late/Upper Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Narrow (0.44 m) bed identified as the 'Chondrites Event', just below the plenus bed. These strata fall within the Metoicoceras geslinianum Zone and are, therefore, of Late Cenomanian age.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: LWL-Museum für Naturkunde, Münster, Germany (WMNM)

Primary reference: T. El Hossny, L. Cavin, U. Kaplan, A. H. Schwermann, E. Samankassou and M. Friedman. 2023. The first articulated skeletons of enigmatic Late Cretaceous billfish-like actinopterygians. Royal Society Open Science 10(231296) [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 232607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 06.12.2023

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