Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.0° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.8° N, 25.8° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Macrocephalites gracilis ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Callovian (165.3 - 161.5 Ma)

• Kornbergsandstein, Lower Macrocephalusschichten

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rollier

• Repository: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH)

Primary reference: A. Jeannet. 1951. Stratigraphie und Palaeontologie des oolithischen Eisenerzlagers von Herznach und seiner Umgebung. Beiträge zur Geologie der Schweiz, Geotechnische Serie 13(5):1-240 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171555: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2015

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