Jacky Quarry, Chaux-de-Fonds (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.1° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 16.2° 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. Jeannet

• 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 171922: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 22.07.2015

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Aspidoceratidae
Peltoceras trifidum Quenstedt 1887 ammonite