Pk5-lcl, Egesheim Quarry: Kimmeridgian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Syringocapsidae
Podocapsa amphitreptera Foreman 1973
5 specimens
Syringocapsa aff. lata Yang 1993
12 specimens
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Spongocapsulidae
Obesacapsula sp. Pessagno 1977
1 specimen
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Unumidae
Protunuma japonicus Matsuoka and Yao 1985
1 specimen
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Sethocapsidae
Sethocapsa informal sp. 2 Haeckel 1881
12 specimens
Protozoa - Nassellaria - Williriedellidae
Williriedellidae indet. Dumitrica 1970
abundant category
Zhamoidellum aff. ovum Dumitrica 1970
rare category
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 48.1° North, 8.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:39.2° North, 17.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Kimmeridgian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Kimmeridgian
Age range of interval:154.80000 - 149.20000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Nusplingen Limestone
Local section:Nusplingen Local bed:Pk5
Local order:top to bottom
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified lime mudstone
Secondary lithology: lithified chert
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: the section of the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone consists of a thick series of calcareous laminites, subdivided by intercalations of some turbidite ('allodapic limestones') layers and some bioturbated beds,with some 1-2mm thick chert layers
Environment:basinal (carbonate)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast,recrystallized,replaced with calcite
Size of fossils:microfossils
Abundance in sediment:common
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:bulk,chemical,hydrochloric,sieve,field collection
Minimum sieve size:0.063
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:SMNS
Metadata
Database number:67102
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:T. Schossleitner
Modifier:T. Schossleitner Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2006-11-08 06:24:30 Last modified:2006-11-09 03:54:00
Access level:the public Released:2006-11-08 06:24:30
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

19122. P. Zügel, W. Riegraf, G. Schweigert and G. Dietl. 1998. Radiolaria from the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone (Late Kimmeridgian, SW Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 268:43 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]