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: Cardioceras cordatum ammonoid zone, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Middle Cordatenschichten

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ooidal, argillaceous limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by C. Moesch

• 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 171659: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.07.2015

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