Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 17.0° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Clydoniceras discus ammonoid zone, Schelmenloch Member (Ifenthal Formation), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• Hochstetteri Horizon, Discus Subzone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, ferruginous, ooidal limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Museum of Natural History Bern (NMBE)
Primary reference: V. Dietze and B. Hostettler. 2016. Occurrences of the ammonite genus Clydoniceras Blake, 1905 in the Middle Jurassic (Upper Bathonian, Discus Zone) of NW Switzerland. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 127:218-229 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 193321: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 11.05.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
"Parachoffatia sp." = Plesiochoffatia
"Parachoffatia sp." = Plesiochoffatia Hahn and Hahn 1999 multituberculate | |
Cephalopoda | |
Oxycerites orbis Giebel 1852 ammonite | |
Homoeoplanulites balinensis Neumayr 1871 ammonite
Homoeoplanulites homoeomorphus Buckman 1922 ammonite | |
Macrocephalites sp. Zittel 1884 ammonite
Macrocephalites jacquoti Douvillé 1878 ammonite | |
Clydoniceras discus Sowerby 1813 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Ctenostreon sp. Eichwald 1862 file clam | |
Actinostreon sp. Bayle 1878 oyster | |
Trigonia sp. Bruguière 1789 clam |