ammonites
Eg-bll, Egesheim Quarry (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Germany (48.1° N, 8.9° E: paleocoordinates 39.2° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Nusplingen Limestone Formation, Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, fine-grained, argillaceous lime mudstone

• the section of the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone consists of a thick series of calcareous laminites, subdivided by intercalations of some turbidite ('allodapic limestones') layers and some bioturbated beds

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original silica

Reposited in the SMNS

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, hydrochloric, sieve,

Primary reference: P. Zügel, W. Riegraf, G. Schweigert and G. Dietl. 1998. Radiolaria from the Nusplingen Lithographic Limestone (Late Kimmeridgian, SW Germany). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 268:43 [W. Kiessling/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67105: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 08.11.2006