ammonites
Baerecke-Limpricht clay pit, Halberstadt (bed 18) (Triassic of Germany)

Also known as ETE Locality 1559, Plateosaurus bonebed

Where: Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (51.9° N, 11.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 10.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Trossingen Formation (Middle Keuper Group), Rhaetian (205.6 - 201.6 Ma)

• Knollenmergel, upper Middle Keuper

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray, green, red, blue claystone and sandstone

• ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: ., ETE env comment: miring
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: .; "12 m of mudstones of mainly greenish-gray and reddish colors...overlain by fluvial sandstones...claystones with a very low carbonate content.", also described as a "bluish clay"

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collected by O. Jaekel in 1909-1913

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• ETE reference list: 478

Primary reference: O. Jaekel. 1913. Über die Wirbeltierfunde in der oberen Trias von Halberstadt [On the vertebrate finds in the Upper Triassic of Halberstadt]. Paläontologische Zeitschrift 1:155-215 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22684: authorized by Kay Behrensmeyer, entered by Kay Behrensmeyer on 23.04.2001, edited by Matt Carrano and Roger Benson

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