Villecomte, Lothringen (Jurassic of France)

Where: France (47.5° N, 5.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 14.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• In the layers with Cardioceras cordatum, type of Sowerby, immediately below the zone of Peltoceras transversarium Opp. according to Prof. L. Collot in Dijon.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, ooidal limestone

• "Eisenoolith"

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH, MfN

Primary reference: K. C. von Loesch. 1914. Die Nautilen des weissen Jura. Palaeontographica 61:57-146 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171484: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.07.2015

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Taxonomic list

• von Loesch considers it likely that the BMNH specimen described by Foord & Crick (1890) is the lost second specimen of Schlotheim, because both specimens have labels with the same mistaken locality ("Lothringen").
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Cephalopoda
 Nautilida - Pseudonautilidae
"Nautilus aganiticus n. sp." = Pseudaganides aganiticus, "Nautilus schlotheimi n. sp." = Pseudaganides schlotheimi
"Nautilus aganiticus n. sp." = Pseudaganides aganiticus Schlotheim 1820 nautiloid
"Nautilus schlotheimi n. sp." = Pseudaganides schlotheimi von Loesch 1914 nautiloid