Where: Solothurn, Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Presimoceras acanthicum ammonoid zone, Wettingen Member (Villigen Formation), Early/Lower Kimmeridgian (155.7 - 150.8 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: sand shoal; ooidal, yellow packstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Zimmermann in 1950
Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,
Primary reference: C. A. Meyer and A. P. Hunt. 1998. The first stegosaurian dinosaur (Ornithischia: Thyreophora) from the Upper Jurassic of Switzerland. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1998(3):141-145 [M. Carrano/K. Maguire/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 55218: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Kaitlin Maguire on 29.09.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
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