Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 17.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Reineckeia anceps ammonoid zone, Middle Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• Lower ore layer, lower Ancepsschichten

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, brown, gray limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Knecht in 1947

• Repository: Personal collection of Knecht

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 171560: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 12.07.2015

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