Lorüns Quarry, Section 3 (Jurassic of Austria)

Where: Austria (47.1° N, 9.8° E: paleocoordinates 33.9° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Allgäu Formation, Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: gray, red limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Siegfried Fussenegger

• Repository: Vorarlberger Naturschau, Dornbirn, Austria

Primary reference: C. Meister and J. G. Friebe. 2003. Austroalpine Liassic ammonites from Vorarlberg (Austria, Northern Calcareous Alps). Beiträge zur Paläontologie 28:9-99 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 218902: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 04.03.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Phylloceratida - Phylloceratidae
Partschiceras ex gr. striatocostatum Meneghini 1853 ammonite
Phylloceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
"Phylloceras ex gr. frondosum" = Phylloceras hebertinum Reynes 1868 ammonite
 Phylloceratida - Juraphyllitidae
Juraphyllites libertus Gemmellaro 1884 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Lytoceratidae
Lytoceras sp. Suess 1865 ammonite
Lytoceras ovimontanum Geyer 1893 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Harpoceratinae indet. Neumayr 1875 ammonite
Fuciniceras ex gr. isseli Fucini 1900 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Liparoceratidae
Amaltheus margaritatus de Montford 1808 ammonite
Amaltheus stokesi Sowerby 1818 ammonite