Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 17.2° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Quenstedtoceras lamberti ammonoid zone, Late/Upper Callovian (164.7 - 161.2 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 Rollier
• Repository: Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich (ETH)
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 171600: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 13.07.2015
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda | |
Campylites secula Spath 1928 ammonite
Orbignyceras paulowi Tystovitch 1911 ammonite
Orbignyceras pseudopunctatum Lahusen 1883 ammonite |