Where: Germany (52.1° N, 10.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 35.7° N, 23.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pseudocordata ammonoid zone, Korallenoolith Formation, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Upper Korallenoolith Formation, Ringsteadia pseudocordata Zone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, recrystallized

Collection methods: quarrying,

• bivalves only; gastropods and rare brachiopods, ammonites reported to be present, but not listed

Primary reference: H. Scholz. 2005. Taxonomie der Muschelfauna aus dem Oberjura von Hildesheim (N-Deutschland)[Taxonomy of Upper Jurassic Bivalves from Hildesheim (Northern Germany)]. Beringeria 35:3-52 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 60387: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 12.05.2006

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