ammonites
Ebrach, bed number 7 (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (49.8° N, 10.5° E: paleocoordinates 26.4° N, 13.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blasensandstein Member (Hassberge Formation), Carnian (235.0 - 221.5 Ma)

• Bed 7 within the Ebrach quarry (see Kuhn 1936:93), with 30-40 cm thickness; Blasensandstein locally overlies the Lehrbergschichten and underlies the Coburger Sandstein and is laterally equivalent to the Kieselsandstein of Baden-Württemberg which is now the lower Hassberge Formation, Middle Keuper Subgroup, and is considered late Carnian in age (see Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).

•Hunt & Lucas (1991) referred this locality to their "Paleorhinus biochron" and it was subsequently incorporated into the Otischalkian LVF.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; sandstone

• "playa lake deposits" (Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission 2005: Cour. Forsch.-Inst. Senckenberg 253:1-296).

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by F. Heim, A. Neukam, L. Nöth in 1929-1932; reposited in the BSP

Collection methods: salvage, quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: O. Kuhn. 1932. Labyrinthodonten und Parasuchier aus dem mittleren Keuper von Ebrach in Oberfranken. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geologie und Paläontologie 69:94-144 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 97737: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Richard Butler on 27.08.2010

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