Lower Ammonite bank, Ludwag, old quarry: Early/Lower Kimmeridgian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Amoeboceras lineatum Quenstedt 1887
1 individual
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Eopecten velatus (Goldfuss 1833)
Gastropoda - Pleurotomariidae
Conotomaria sp. Cox 1959
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aulacostephanidae
Pictonia cf. constricta
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Rasenia hossingensis
1 individual
Rasenia wittecma
1 individual
Rasenia gothica Schneid 1961
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Ataxioceratidae
Lithacosphinctes evolutus
3 individuals
Lithacosphinctes pseudoachilles
1 individual
Orthosphinctes tizianifomis
4 individuals
Orthosphinctes polygyratus (Reinecke 1818)
23 individuals
Orthosphinctes wemodingensis (Wegele 1929)
1 individual
Orthosphinctes freybergi (Geyer 1961)
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Sutneria platynota (Reinecke 1818)
4 individuals
Physodoceras cf. circumspinosum (Quenstedt 1857)
1 individual
original and current combination Ammonites inflatus circumspinosus
Physodoceras cf. altenense (d'Orbigny 1850)
1 individual
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Taramelliceras kobyi
7 individuals
ssp. wegeli 4, ssp. quenstedti 3
Taramelliceras rigidum (Wegele 1929)
1 individual
Taramelliceras compsum (Oppel 1863)
1 individual
Taramelliceras subnereus Wegele 1929
2 individuals
Taramelliceras litocerum (Oppel 1863)
3 individuals
Glochiceras lingulatum (Quenstedt 1858)
2 individuals
Glochiceras nimbatum (Oppel 1863)
1 individual
recombined as Glochiceras (Glochiceras) nimbatum
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Mesohibolitidae
Hibolithes semisulcatus
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bavaria
Coordinates: 50.0° North, 11.1° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.2° North, 19.2° 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:Early/Lower Kimmeridgian Ammonoid zone: polygyratus
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 152.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Dietfurt
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Geology comments: 2 m above Oxfordian/Kimmeridgian boundary
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Database number:212931
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2020-08-23 07:59:09 Last modified:2020-08-23 08:09:25
Access level:the public Released:2020-08-23 07:59:09
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

73523. T. Hornung. 2002. Kondensierte Ammonitenbänke im Beckenbereich des basalen Kimmeridge der Nördlichen Frankenalb (Alter Steinbruch Ludwag, Ofr.). Geologische Blätter von Nordost-Bayern 52:195-242 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]