Nellingen, Würtemberg: Rhaetian, Germany
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Palaeonisciformes
- Palaeoniscidae
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Gyrolepis albertii
Agassiz 1834
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| BMNH 28463 | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Cardiida
- Cardiidae
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Cardium philippianum
Dunker 1847
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Stoppani 1865 | |||||||||
| recombined as Protocardia philippiana | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Germany |
| Coordinates: | 49.1° North, 10.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.1° North, 11.7° East |
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Triassic | Epoch: | Late/Upper Triassic |
| Stage: | Rhaetian | 10 m.y. bin: | Triassic 4 |
| Key time interval: | Rhaetian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 208.50000 - 201.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lenticular lithified sandy conglomerate |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: "lenses of grit or intra-formational conglomerate (or breccia) of sedimentary rocks with a calcite-cemented sandy matrix" | |
| Environment: | coastal indet. |
| Geology comments: marine coastal conditions, possibly a result of a storm or the Rhaetian transgression | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Degree of concentration: | -bonebed |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Museum repositories: | BMNH |
Metadata
| Database number: | 141186 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Clapham, A. Dunhill | Enterer: | P. Vazquez, B. Allen | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2013-03-21 08:51:02 | Last modified: | 2013-11-25 13:02:06 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-03-21 08:51:02 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 38758. | A. S. Woodward. 1891. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History). Part II. Catalogue of the Fossil Fishes in the British Museum (Natural History) 2 [W. Dahdul/B. Frable ] |
Secondary references:
| 70306 | A. Stoppani. 1865. Géologie et paléontologie des couches à Avicula contorta en Lombardie. Paleontologie Lombarde 3:1-267 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen] |