Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.0° E)
• Paleocoordinates: 31.8° N, 25.9° E (Wright 2013)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Quenstedtoceras lamberti ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Callovian (165.3 - 161.5 Ma)
• Considered lower Oxfordian by Jeannet, but below current position of Callovian-Oxfordian boundary
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, brown limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by A. Frei
• Repository: collection of A. Frei, Frick
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 171590: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Orbignyceras paulowi, Orbignyceras cf. paulowi, Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum, Putealiceras punctatum, Subbonarellia freii n. sp.
Orbignyceras paulowi Tystovitch 1911 ammonite
Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum Lahusen 1883 ammonite
Putealiceras punctatum Stahl 1824 ammonite
Subbonarellia freii n. sp. Jeannet 1951 ammonite | |
Lissoceras jullieni Douvillé 1914 ammonite |