Grimmen clay pit (GG collection, apyrenum subzone): Spinatum, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Orthacodontidae
Sphenodus sp. Agassiz 1843
1 specimen
GG 438/41
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Paraorthacodontidae
Paraorthacodus sp. Glikman 1957
7 specimens
GG 438/42-48
Chondrichthyes - Synechodontiformes - Palaeospinacidae
Palidiplospinax enniskilleni (Duffin and Ward 1993)
1 specimen
GG 438/35
Palidiplospinax occultidens (Duffin and Ward 1993)
5 specimens
GG 438/36-40
Chondrichthyes - Agaleidae
Agaleus dorsetensis Duffin and Ward 1983
1 specimen
GG 438/34
Chondrichthyes - Orectolobiformes
Orectolobiformes indet. Applegate 1972
1 specimen
GG 438/54
Chondrichthyes - Rajiformes
Antiquaobatis grimmenensis n. gen., n. sp. Stumpf and Kriwet 2019
1 specimen
GG 438/57
Chondrichthyes - Squalomorphii - Crassodontidanidae
Notidanoides sp. Maisey 1986
1 specimen
GG 438/56
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Lonchidiidae
Lonchidiidae indet. Herman 1977
1 specimen
GG 438/29
Chondrichthyes - Hybodontiformes - Hybodontidae
Hybodus hauffianus Fraas 1895
6 specimens
GG 438/6-11
Hybodus reticulatus Agassiz 1837
5 specimens
GG 438/1-5
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Mecklenburg-Vorpommern County:Röstock
Coordinates: 54.1° North, 13.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:43.7° North, 17.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Pliensbachian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 2
Key time interval:Spinatum
Age range of interval:192.90000 - 184.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Apyrenum subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: unlithified sandstone
Lithology description: Unlithified fine-grained sand containing thin beds of silt, and subordinate lenticular streaks of clay, as well as laterally limited fine- to coarse-grained, bioclastic-rich sand bodies, which are indicative of local accumulations generated by current activity
Environment:deltaic indet.
Geology comments: Shallow-marine deltaic depositional environment
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Institute of Geography and Geology (GG), University of Greifswald
Metadata
Database number:206457
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Research group:vertebrate
Created:2019-11-15 20:46:32 Last modified:2019-11-15 20:46:32
Access level:the public Released:2019-11-15 20:46:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

70957. S. Stumpf and J. Kriwet. 2019. A new Pliensbachian elasmobranch (Vertebrata, Chondrichthyes) assemblage from Europe, and its contribution to the understanding of late Early Jurassic elasmobranch diversity and distributional patterns. PalZ 93:637-658 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]