ammonites
Broethen, Tongrube (Miocene of Germany)

Where: Saxen, Germany (51.4° N, 14.2° E: paleocoordinates 51.8° N, 12.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Serravallian (13.7 - 11.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, gray claystone

• Dunkle Tone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: original carbon

Collection methods: bulk, surface (in situ), sieve,

Primary reference: D. H. Mai. 2001. Die mittelmiozaenen und obermiozaenen Floren aus der Meuroer und Raunoer Folge in der Lausitz. III. Fundstellen und Palaeobiologie. Palaeontographica Abteilung B 258:1-85 [B. Tiffney/G. Smith/J. Alroy] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22898: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Gerlinde Smith on 01.07.2002