Profil Mistelgau: Toarcian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Cenoceratidae
Cenoceras intermedius (Sowerby 1816)
recombined as Cenoceras intermedium
Cephalopoda - Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Calliphylloceras supraliasicum (Pompeckj 1893)
original and current combination Phylloceras supraliasicum
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Pachylytoceras wrighti (Buckman 1905)
recombined as Pleurolytoceras wrighti
Pachylytoceras hircinum (Schlotheim 1820)
recombined as Pleurolytoceras hircinum
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Dumortieria sp.
Dumortieria costulata
Cotteswoldia tenuicostata
synonym of Pleydellia
=aalensis tenuicostata
Cotteswoldia mactra (Dumortier 1874)
Cotteswoldia aalensis (Zieten 1832)
Cotteswoldia fluitans (Dumortier 1874)
Cotteswoldia distans (Buckman 1890)
Cotteswoldia subcompta (Branco 1879)
recombined as Pleydellia subcompta
Pleydellia costulata (Zieten 1830)
Hudlestonia serrodens (Quenstedt 1846)
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 69-66
Local section:Tongube Mistelgau Local bed:aalensis-Zone
Local order:bottom to top
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:51810
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:S. Hicks
Modifier:S. Hicks Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-06-20 10:40:19 Last modified:2005-06-20 13:52:03
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-20 10:40:19
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]