A microconchiate Hypowaagenia Schweigert and Schlampp, 2020 (Aspidoceratidae, Hybonoticeratinae) from the Upper Jurassic of Southern Germany

Authors

  • Günter Schweigert Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart
  • Victor Schlampp Am Reitplatz 2a, 91126 Rednitzhembach

Keywords:

ammonites, Aspidoceratidae, dimorphism, palaeobiogeography, Germany

Abstract

The previously unknown microconch which corresponds to the recently introduced Late Jurassic aspidoceratoid ammonite genus Hypowaagenia Schweigert and Schlampp, 2020, is reported from beds of the topmost Platynota Zone or basal Hypselocyclum Zone of Franconia. This record indicates that these exotic ammonite findings are not of long-drifting necroplanktonic shells, but stem from animals that have spread over this area after immigration from the Tethys.

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2020-11-19

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