Quarry Mistelgau, Jurensismergel: Late/Upper Toarcian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Gastropoda
- Aporrhaidae
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Toarctocera subpunctata
(Münster 1844)
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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: | based on nearby landmark | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early/Lower Jurassic |
| Stage: | Toarcian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 3 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Toarcian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 180.40000 - 174.70000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Jurensismergel | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: ammonoid zones: Grammoceras thouarsense, Hammatoceras insigne, Dumortieria levesquei, Cotteswoldia aalensis | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "shale" |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | autochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 92959 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel |
| Modifier: | A. Khan | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2009-12-18 03:39:15 | Last modified: | 2013-08-19 16:34:42 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2009-12-18 03:39:15 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 31413. | J. Gründel, A. Nützel, and C. Schulbert. 2009. Toarctocera (Gastropoda, Aporrhaidae): a new genus from the Jurassic (Toarcian/Aalenian) of south Germany and the early evolutionary history of the family Aporrhaidae. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 83:533-543 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/P. Wagner] |