ammonites
Nusplingen quarry (Jurassic of Germany)

Also known as Plant data in collection 24524

Where: Baden Württemberg, Germany (48.1° N, 9.1° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 17.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonoticeras beckeri ammonoid zone, Nusplingen Limestone Formation, Late/Upper Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• Formerly assinged to Tithonian. Upper Kimmeridgian age assigned by Schweigert (1998). Beckeri Zone, Ulmense Subzone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified lime mudstone

• Bedded and platy limestones

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: Data combined for a 10 m section

Primary reference: O. Dietl and G. Schweigert. 2000. Brachiopoden aus dem Nusplinger Plattenkalk (Oberjura, SW Deutschland). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde. Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 290:1-23 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 41817: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 21.07.2004, edited by Uta Merkel, John Alroy, Richard Butler and Roger Benson