Daiting (BSPG collection): Early/Lower Tithonian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda
- Octobrachia
- Muensterellidae
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Muensterella spinosa n. sp.
Fuchs et al. 2019
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Fuchs et al. 2019 | |||||||||
Listroteuthis conica
(Wagner 1859)
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Fuchs et al. 2019 | |||||||||
Reptilia
- Metriorhynchidae
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Geosaurus grandis
(Wagner 1858)
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Andrade et al. 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BSPG AS I VI 1 | ||||||||||
Cricosaurus medius n. sp.
Wagner 1858
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Andrade et al. 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
recombined as Geosaurus medius | ||||||||||
lost holotype | ||||||||||
Cricosaurus gracilis
(Phillips 1871)
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Wagner 1858 | |||||||||
Cricosaurus elegans
(Wagner 1852)
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Andrade et al. 2010 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
BSPG AS I 504 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
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Archaeopteryx albersdoerferi n. sp.
Kundrát et al. 2019
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Kundrát et al. 2019 | 1 individual | ||||||||
SNSB BSPG VN-2010/1 | ||||||||||
Ornithocephalus rhamphastinus n. sp.
Wagner 1851
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Bennett 2006 | 1 individual | ||||||||
recombined as Germanodactylus rhamphastinus | ||||||||||
BSP AS.I.745 | ||||||||||
Reptilia
- Pleurosauridae
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Pleurosaurus goldfussi n. gen., n. sp.
von Meyer 1831
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Carroll and Wild 1994 | 2 specimens | ||||||||
Unnamed Meyer 1831 holotype, complete skeleton; BSPHGM 1978-1-7, fragmentary skull and skeleton | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Germany | State/province: | Bayern |
Coordinates: | 48.8° North, 10.9° East (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 40.0° North, 19.1° East | ||
Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Jurassic |
Stage: | Tithonian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 6 |
Key time interval: | Early/Lower Tithonian | Ammonoid zone: | Hybonoticeras hybonotum |
Age range of interval: | 150.80000 - 145.00000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | lithified lime mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: Greater SiO2 content than Solnhofen samples | |
Environment: | lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Museum repositories: | BSP |
Metadata
Database number: | 132062 | ||
Authorizer: | R. Benson, M. Clapham, P. Mannion, W. Kiessling, R. Butler, P. Barrett | Enterer: | R. Benson, J. Tennant, R. Butler, M. Clapham, T. Cleary, W. Kiessling |
Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | marine invertebrate,vertebrate |
Created: | 2012-08-07 01:01:08 | Last modified: | 2021-05-26 11:39:34 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-08-07 01:01:08 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
57860. | H. von Meyer. 1831. [Pleurosaurus goldfussi.]. Nova Acta Academiae Caesareae Leopoldino-Carolinae Germanicae Naturae Curiosorum 15:194-195 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/T. Cleary] |
Secondary references:
43156 | M. B. Andrade, M. T. Young, J. B. Desojo and S. L. Brusatte. 2010. The evolution of extreme hypercarnivory in Metriorhynchidae (Mesoeucrocodylia: Thalattosuchia) based on evidence from microscopic denticle morphology. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 30(5):1451-1465 [M. Young/M. Young] | |
61049 | S. C. Bennett. 2006. Juvenile specimens of the pterosaur Germanodactylus cristatus, with a review of the genus. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 26(4):872-878 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
43847 | R. L. Carroll and R. Wild. 1994. Marine members of the Sphenodontia. In N. C. Fraser, H.-D. Sues (eds.), In the Shadow of the Dinosaurs: Early Mesozoic Tetrapods. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 70-83 [R. Butler/R. Butler] | |
69677 | D. Fuchs, Y. Iba, A. Heyng, M. Iijima, C. Klug, N. L. Larson, and G. Schweigert. 2019. The Muensterelloidea: phylogeny and character evolution of Mesozoic stem octopods. Papers in Palaeontology 6:31-92 [R. Butler/E. Dunne/M. Clapham] | |
67226 | M. Kundrát, J. Nudds, and B. P. Kear, J., and P. Ahlberg. 2019. The first specimen of Archaeopteryx from the Upper Jurassic Mörnsheim Formation of Germany. Historical Biology 31(1):3-63 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] | |
49839 | A. Wagner. 1858. Zur Kenntniss der Sauier aus den lithographischen Schiefen. Abhandlungen der Mathemat-Physikalischen Classe der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 8:415-528 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/J. Tennant] |