Bed 02, Kernbohrung/Tongrube Wittnau, Baden-Württemberg: Early/Lower Aalenian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Nodosariata - Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
Lenticulina dorbignyi
ssp. dorbignyi
Lituolida - Lituolidae
Ammobaculites subcretaceus Cushman and Alexander 1930
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Graphoceratidae
Leioceras subglabrum
Leioceras opalinum (Reinecke 1818)
Leioceras subcostosum Buckman 1899
Cephalopoda - Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Pleydellia falcifera
Pleydellia buckmani Maubeuge 1947
Cephalopoda - Belemnitida - Megateuthididae
Acrocoelites conoideus (Oppel 1856)
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.0° North, 7.8° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:37.4° North, 17.6° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:491 meters
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Middle Jurassic
Stage:Aalenian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Early/Lower Aalenian
Age range of interval:174.70000 - 170.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Opalinuston
Local section:Kernbohrung Wittnau Local bed:02
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed at depth 54.5 m with a thickness of 0.3 m; opalinum zone; opalinum subzone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified claystone
Environment:offshore
Geology comments: In the south-german basin (Süddeutsches Becken) located at the northern margin of the Thetys. About 50 km away from shore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils,some microfossils
Collection methods:bulk,core,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:59492
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:A. Khan Research group:marine invertebrate,micropaleontology
Created:2006-04-04 01:37:52 Last modified:2013-08-17 18:25:25
Access level:the public Released:2006-04-04 01:37:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

17049. W. Ohmert, V. Allia C. Arias et al. 1996. Die Grenzziehung Unter-/Mitteljura (Toarcium/Aalenium) bei Wittnau und Fuentelsaz [Determinig the boundary between Toarcium/Aalenium near Wittnau and Fuentelsaz]. Informationen Geologisches Landesamt Baden-Württemberg 8:1-52 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner]