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 - Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Pachylytoceras hircinum (Schlotheim 1820)
recombined as Pleurolytoceras hircinum
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Dumortieria sp.
Pleydellia leura (Buckman 1890)
Cotteswoldia tenuicostata
synonym of Pleydellia
=aalensis tenuicostata
Cotteswoldia mactra (Dumortier 1874)
Cotteswoldia aalensis (Zieten 1832)
Cotteswoldia fluitans (Dumortier 1874)
Cotteswoldia distans (Buckman 1890)
=aalensis distans
Cotteswoldia subcompta (Branco 1879)
recombined as Pleydellia subcompta
Pleydellia costulata (Zieten 1830)
Hudlestonia serrodens (Quenstedt 1846)
Phlyseogrammoceras cf. dispansiforme (Wunstorf 1904)
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 47-46
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:51821
Authorizer:F. Fursich Enterer:S. Hicks
Modifier:S. Hicks Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-06-21 09:21:20 Last modified:2005-06-21 12:21:21
Access level:the public Released:2005-06-21 09:21:19
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]