Bommelscheier industrial area, Bascharage (Jurassic of Luxembourg)

Where: Luxembourg (49.6° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.2° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• 'Couches à Harpoceras falciferum (lo1)', Lower Jurassic, lower Toarcian, Serpentinum (Falciferum) Chronozone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, carbonaceous shale and lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg

Primary reference: D. Delsate. 1997. Actinoptérygiens du Toarcien inférieur du Grand Duché de Luxembourg: Présence de Leptoplepis normandica Nybelin 1962 (Téléostéen) avec otolithes in situ. Travaux scientifiques du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg 27:125-129 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 148844: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Priscilla Vazquez on 26.07.2013, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Actinopteri
 Pholidophoriformes -
"Pholidophorus friedeni" = Luxembourgichthys friedeni2
"Pholidophorus friedeni" = Luxembourgichthys friedeni2 Delsate 1999
MNHNL TU 763
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Leptolepis sp. Agassiz 1832
TU 734, 819
Leptolepis normandica Nybelin 1962
TU 718, 745, 747, 749, 790, 686
Leptolepis ? normandica Nybelin 1962
TU 746, 702
Insecta
 Hemiptera - Xulsigiidae
Xulsigia karetsa n. gen. n. sp.1
Xulsigia karetsa n. gen. n. sp.1 Szwedo et al. 2017 true bug
MNHNL TV045