Herznach, bed E.1 (Rollier collection) (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 16.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Quenstedtoceras mariae ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Mariaeschichten

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal, blue marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Rollier

• Repository: private collection of L. Rollier, Zurich (now at ETH, Zurich)

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 171567: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Pseudonautilidae
"Nautilus (Pseudaganides) krenkeli" = Xenocheilus krenkeli
"Nautilus (Pseudaganides) krenkeli" = Xenocheilus krenkeli Jeannet 1951
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Sublunuloceras nodosulcatum Lahusen 1883 ammonite
Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum Lahusen 1883 ammonite
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
Cylindroteuthis puzosi d'Orbigny 1843 belemnite