Herznach mine, bed C.3 (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 17.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Peltoceras athleta ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, brown, red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: 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 171565: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Sowerbyceras cf. tietzei Till 1910 ammonite
Calliphylloceras demidoffi Rousseau 1842 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
"Peltoceras athleta" = Peltoceras (Peltoceras) athleta Phillips 1829 ammonite
Peltoceras trifidum Quenstedt 1887 ammonite
Metapeltoceras helveticum n. sp. Jeannet 1951 ammonite
Euaspidoceras cf. hirsutum Bayle 1878 ammonite
Euaspidoceras ferrugineum Jeannet 1951 ammonite
Euaspidoceras cf. ferrugineum Jeannet 1951 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kosmoceratidae
Zugokosmoceras cf. obductum Buckman 1925 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Reineckeiidae
Reineckeites douvillei Steinmann 1881 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Lunuloceras sp. ammonite
Lunuloceras pleurospanium Parona and Bonarelli 1895 ammonite
Lunuloceras lunuloides Kilian 1889 ammonite
Brightia lugeoni Tsytovitch 1911 ammonite
Orbignyceras paulowi Tystovitch 1911 ammonite
Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum Lahusen 1883 ammonite
Campylites secula Spath 1928 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lissoceratidae
Lissoceras jullieni Douvillé 1914 ammonite
 Nautilida - Pseudonautilidae
"Nautilus (Pseudaganides) krenkeli" = Xenocheilus krenkeli
"Nautilus (Pseudaganides) krenkeli" = Xenocheilus krenkeli Jeannet 1951