Walbeck (Weferlingen), Deutschland


Fundort: Walbeck (Weferlingen), Deutschland, Saxony-Anhalt, Deutschland
Taxon: Saxonella crepaturae aus der Familie Saxonellidae
Fossilien und Beschreibung der Fundstelle:
Macrofossils, "?upper Middle Paleocene (?MP 5, BiochroM'97, 1997)" = ? Selandian thought by Gingerich (1976) on the basis of Plesiadapis walbeckensis to be "correlated somewhere between the Ples. anceps and Ples. rex zones" (i.e., middle Tiffanian), Infill of 14 m deep, N-S trending karstic fissure in late Early Triassic marly limestones (Lower Muschelkalk), consisting of mud (weathering remnant of the limestones) in the upper part and Early Oligocene marly sand including reworked Paleocene fossils in the lower part (Bachmann, 2008).
Geschätztes Alter
der Fundstelle:
zwischen 59,2 und 61,6 Millionen Jahre aus der Formation in Deutschland
Geologie, Sratigraphie Selandian / Selandian /
Koordinaten: 52° 16 ' 50 '' N, 11° 3 ' 56 '' O

Literatur

R. C. Fox 1984, First North American record of the Paleocene primate Saxonella. Journal of Paleontology. 58:3, p. 892 - 894

Systematik