Turritellenplatte

48.3892888888899.8927583333333Koordinaten: 48 ° 23 ' 21.4 "N, 9 ° 53' 33.9 " E The Erminger Turritellenplatte is a mass accumulation of fossil housings of the tower snail Turritella Turris from the time of the lower Miocene at Ulm district Ermingen ( Hochsträß ) on northern edge of the Southern German Molasse Basin. The length of the Turritellenplatte is only a few hundred meters, their largest size of 6 m.

The Erminger Turritellenplatte in its entirety including the main reference of Stockert is since 1980 a protected areal geological ground monument ( Geotop ) of the district of Tübingen., For more information concerning offers the first station of Erminger nature trail information boards. The rock was once used due to its hardness and weather resistance by the inhabitants of Ermingen as a building material, which in Erminger Forest witness countless pits in which the rock was mined. A large part of the area is protected by a fence in front of illicit excavations for several years.

The sediments of the Erminger Turritellenplatte encamped before about 18.5 million years ago, in the early Ottnangium under shallow marine conditions near the coast from. The proven there bathyal sharks Notorhynchus primigenius and Mitsukurina lineata indicate both good connections to deep-water regions out as well as a good supply of food in the deposition area of ​​the later Turritellenplatte. From mineral guide suggests a moldanubisch - saxothurigisches delivery area of the rock. The plate corresponds petrographically and stratigraphically the Randengrobkalk, which is pending in the Hegau, and the Tennikerfluh ( District Sissach, Canton of Basel-Land ).