ammonites
Malenovice (Cretaceous of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (49.6° N, 18.4° E: paleocoordinates 40.4° N, 26.1° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: feraudianus ammonoid zone, Tesin-Hradiste Formation, Late/Upper Barremian (130.0 - 125.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified claystone

• redeposited from deep shelf environment by distal turbidite currents into deeper water parts of the basin
• dark grey usually calcareous claystone; rich ammonite assemblage

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: Z. Vasicek and P. Skupien. 2002. Notes on some rare Barremian/Aptian ancyloceratids from the Silesian Unit (Outer Western Carpathians, Czech Republic). Journal of the Czech Geological Society 47:65-74 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93468: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 19.01.2010