“…Nowadays, there is hardly any outcrops left. This is the main reason why only 15 papers illustrating ammonites from in situ occurrences from the Aptian in North Germany were published in the past 50 years (Kemper, 1971a(Kemper, , 1973aKemper and Zimmerle, 1978;Gaida et al, 1978;Kemper, 1976Kemper, , , 1982aKemper, , , 1995Weber, 1996;Mutterlose, 1996; Owen in Mutterlose et al, 2003;Hoffmann and Mutterlose, 2011;Vespermann, 2006;Mutterlose and Wiedenroth, 3 2009;Lehmann et al, 2012;Lehmann et al , 2016). Among those, ammonite systematic is only addressed in a couple of contributions (Owen in Mutterlose et al, 2003;Hoffmann and Mutterlose, 2011) and thus each further account is reasonable.…”