Oberbuchsiten Quarry (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Solothurn, Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Presimoceras acanthicum ammonoid zone, Wettingen Member (Villigen Formation), Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: sand shoal; ooidal, yellow packstone

• "The Wettingen member has most likely been deposited as a shallow water oolite shoal in a high energy environment"
• 'beige oolitic packstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Zimmermann in 1950

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

Primary reference: C. A. Meyer and A. P. Hunt. 1998. The first stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1998(3):141-145 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 55218: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 29.09.2005

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Stegosauridae indet.
Stegosauridae indet. Marsh 1880 ornithischian
NMS 20'721