Profil Mistelgau: Toarcian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Dumortieria costulata
Dumortieria aff. gunderhofensis
Dumortieria brancoi Benecke 1905
Dumortieria tabulata Buckman 1892
Dumortieria levesquei (d'Orbigny 1844)
Dumortieria pseudoradiosa (Branco 1879)
Dumortieria cf. rustica Buckman 1902
Dumortieria striatulocostata (Quenstedt 1885)
Dumortieria radiosa (Seebach 1864)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Bavaria
Coordinates: 49.9° North, 11.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.5° North, 20.1° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Toarcian
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Jurensismergel Member:Schicht 80
Local section:Tongube Mistelgau Local bed:levesquei-Zone
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphy comments: Schicht 80=Dumortieriea-Lage III
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:passive margin
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: In the German basin (Germanisches Becken), located at the northern margin of the Thetys, clayey-marly sediments have been deposited.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:cast,original calcite,replaced with calcite,replaced with pyrite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:autochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:all microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:51307
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:S. Hicks
Modifier:S. Hicks Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-06-02 10:23:06 Last modified:2005-06-02 13:23:07
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-02 10:23:05
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13347. C. Schulbert. 2001. Die Ammonitenfauna und Stratigraphie der Tongrube Mistelgau bei Bayreuth (Oberfranken). Beihefte zu den Berichten der Naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft Bayreuth e.V 4:1-183 [F. Fursich/S. Hicks/M. Clapham]