Herznach mine, bed G, lower marl (ETH 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: Birmensdorf Formation, Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Labeled "Grosse Perisphinces"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified marl

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 171665: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 16.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Trimarginites arolicus Oppel 1862 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Euaspidoceras sp. Spath 1931 ammonite