Herznach mine, bed C.2 (Frei collection) (Jurassic of Switzerland)

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: Peltoceras athleta ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, ooidal, brown, red 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 171597: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Unipeltoceras katharinae n. gen. n. sp.
Unipeltoceras katharinae n. gen. n. sp. Jeannet 1951 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Oppeliidae
Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum Lahusen 1883 ammonite