Brunn Quarry layer 7: Late/Upper Kimmeridgian, Germany
collected by Monika Rothgaenger 2002

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Carcharhiniformes - Scyliorhinidae
Palaeoscyllium sp. Wagner 1857
1 specimen
complete specimen, has yet to be described in detail
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Eastern Barvaria County:Upper Palatinate
Coordinates: 49.1° North, 11.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.4° North, 20.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Late/Upper Kimmeridgian Ammonoid zone: Sutneria subeumela
Age range of interval:152.20000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Local section:Brunn Quarry Local bed:layer 7
Stratigraphy comments: Finds of the index ammonite Sutneria subeumela in both the lower and upper part of the section constrain the age of the entire locality to the Subeumela Subzone of the Upper
Kimmeridgian (Röper & Rothgaenger 1997; Schweigert 2007; Heyng et al. 2015).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination calcareous mudstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: The section of the Brunn quarry exposes c. 8 m of sediments, presenting an intercalation of massive limestone layers and eight finely laminated Plattenkalk sections (Röper et al. 1996; Röper & Rothgaenger 1997; Heyng et al. 2015). Whereas the massive limestone layers are almost devoid of macrofossils, fossil remains were otherwise found throughout the section in the laminated limestones. The latter layers range from 10 to 80 cm in thickness and are often very finely laminated, with 1 cm of Plattenkalk including up to 70 distinct limestone laminae (Heyng et al. 2015).
Environment:lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal
Geology comments: Due to sea-level changes, the Plattenkalk facies progressed from east to west from the Upper Kimmeridgian to the Tithonian (Viohl 2015a), with laminated limestones
being deposited in shallow depressions (“Wannen”) between the reef complexes. The locality of Brunn is situated at the southern rim of one of the smallest of these depressions, the Pfraundorf-Heitzenhofener Basin.
... the rarity of the fully marine chondrichthyans supports the interpretation of Brunn as a rather isolated, marginal marine, probably lagoonal environment (Röper & Rothgaenger 1997; Heyng et al. 2015).
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:excellent
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:BSP
Collectors:Monika Rothgaenger Collection dates:2002
Collection method comments: Starting around 1990 some well-preserved fossils were discovered by collectors, and the first scientific excavations took place soon afterwards. These yielded many fossil plants and numerous invertebrate and vertebrate taxa.
The specimen was found in summer 2002 during an investigation of the Brunn quarry by Monika Rothgaenger, who was at the time in charge of the privately organised scientific excavation in cooperation with the Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology, Munich and the Solnhofen Museum, Bavaria. The specimen was subsequently prepared by freelance preparator Martin Kapitzke in Stuttgart before coming to the Solnhofen Museum in 2003. While permanently housed in the Solnhofen Museum as specimen BSP–1993–XVIII–2 (formerly curated as BSP XVIII–VFKO–A12), the material is owned by Bavarian State Collection for Palaeontology and Geology, Munich, Bavaria, Germany (BSP).
Taxonomic list comments:many fossil plants and numerous invertebrate and vertebrate taxa
Metadata
Database number:187438
Authorizer:P. Barrett Enterer:T. Cleary
Research group:vertebrate
Subset of collection #:187436
Created:2017-07-28 11:01:33 Last modified:2017-07-28 11:01:33
Access level:the public Released:2017-07-28 11:01:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
62899. O. W. M. Rauhut, A. López-Arbarello, M. Röper and M. Rothgaenger. 2017. Vertebrate fossils from the Kimmeridgian of Brunn: the oldest fauna from the Solnhofen Archipelago (Late Jurassic, Bavaria, Germany). Zitteliana 89:305-329 [P. Barrett/T. Cleary/M. Uhen]