Herznach mine, bed D.1 (Frei collection) (Jurassic of Switzerland)

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

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Orbignyceras paulowi Tystovitch 1911 ammonite
Orbignyceras cf. paulowi Tystovitch 1911 ammonite
sp. A
Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum Lahusen 1883 ammonite
Putealiceras punctatum Stahl 1824 ammonite
Subbonarellia freii n. sp. Jeannet 1951 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lissoceratidae
Lissoceras jullieni Douvillé 1914 ammonite