Herznach mine, bed E.1 (Frei 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)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal, blue marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A. Frei

• Repository: collection of A. Frei, Frick

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 171602: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
"Raspailites eugenei" = Peltoceratoides eugenii Raspail 1842 ammonite
Prieserites "sp. A" Jeannet 1951 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Kosmoceratidae
"Cosmoceras spinosum" = Kosmoceras spinosum
"Cosmoceras spinosum" = Kosmoceras spinosum Sowerby 1826 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Putealiceras cf. punctatum Stahl 1824 ammonite
Kheraites cf. laubei Neumayr 1871 ammonite
Brightia sveva Bonarelli 1893 ammonite
Orbignyceras paulowi Tystovitch 1911 ammonite
Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum Lahusen 1883 ammonite
Campylites helveticus Jeannet 1951 ammonite