Railway cut south of Buchsweiler (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (48.8° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.6° N, 10.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Schlotheimia angulata zone, Late/Upper Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Primary reference: W. Deecke. 1888. Ueber zwei Fische aus den Augulatuskalken des Unter-Elsass. Mittheilungen der Commission für die Geologische Landes-Untersuchung von Elsass-Lothringen 1:203-213 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 122726: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 05.01.2012

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Taxonomic list

Osteichthyes
 Ionoscopiformes - Furidae
Heterolepidotus angulati n. sp. Deecke 1888 ray-finned fish