Where: Mersch, Luxembourg (49.7° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 8.4° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Schlotheimia angulata ammonoid zone, Luxembourg Sandstone Formation, Late/Upper Hettangian (201.3 - 196.5 Ma)
• Schlotheimia complanata Subzone. Bed is 38.7 m above base of section and ca. 10 m below transition to Sinemurian Strassel Marl and Limestone Formation.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; coarse-grained, shelly/skeletal, conglomeratic carbonate and claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collected in the 1980s
Collection methods: salvage,
• Repository: National Natural History Museum of Luxembourg
Primary reference: D. Delsate and M. D. Ezcurra. 2014. The first Early Jurassic (late Hettangian) theropod dinosaur remains from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Geological Belgica 17(2):175-181 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 155210: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 01.04.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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