Roggenburg Rieij (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Basel Landschaft, Switzerland (47.4° N, 7.3° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.3° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gregoryceras transversarium ammonoid zone, Buix Member (St-Ursanne Formation), Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Perisphinctes luciaeformis subzone. The fossil material that was collected historically at

•this outcrop derives mainly from bed 50.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal or restricted shallow subtidal; lithified wackestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Fondation Paléontologique Jurassienne (FPJ), Naturhistorischen Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern (NMBE)

Primary reference: E. A. Bischof, B. Hostettler, and U. Menkveld-Gfeller. 2018. The cidaroids from the Middle Oxfordian St-Ursanne Formation of the Swiss Jura Mountains. Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 37:1-27 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196461: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 15.09.2018

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Paracidaris florigemma Phillips 1829 pencil urchin