Hochwald (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Also known as Reef 530

Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 7.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.5° N, 16.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Oxfordian (163.5 - 157.3 Ma)

• Lower Sequanian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: perireef or subreef; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1964. Etude stratigraphique et paleontologique des formations a madreporaires du Jurassique superieur du Jura et de l'est du Basin de Paris. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 100:1-288 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93199: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2010

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Rhipidogyra ruetimeyeri Koby 1888 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Latomeandra fromenteli Koby 1885 stony coral
 Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Stylina meriani Koby 1889 stony coral