ammonites
Haselbach, Schleenhain Pit B (Oligocene to of Germany)

Where: Saxony, Germany (51.1° N, 12.4° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 9.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rupelian to Rupelian (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; unlithified, brown sandstone

• Bright brown, fine sand

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

Primary reference: D. H. Mai and H. Walther. 1978. Die Floren des Haselbacher Serie im Weisselster-Becken (Bezirk Leipzig, DDR). Abhandlungen des Staatlichen Museums fuer Mineralogie und Geologie zu Dresden 28:1-200 [B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney/B. Tiffney] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 25582: authorized by Bruce Tiffney, entered by Sara Pendleton on 18.09.2002