Feidt Quarry, Reckingerwald: Late Hettangian, Luxembourg
collected 1980
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
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| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| BR924, maxillary or dentary shed tooth | ||||||||||
| 1 specimen | ||||||||||
| MHNL BR778, isolated left pedal phalanx III-1 | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
- Plesiosauria
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Plesiosauria indet.
(de Blainville 1835)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| MNHL BR795, dorsal vertebra, MNHL BR777, proximal humerus | ||||||||||
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Reptilia
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Temnodontosaurus sp.
Lydekker 1889
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| MNHL BR 794, tooth | ||||||||||
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Chondrichthyes
- Hybodontiformes
- Hybodontidae
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| 2 specimens | ||||||||||
| Fin spines, MNHL BR738, 749 | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | Luxembourg | State/province: | Mersch |
| Coordinates: | 49.7° North, 6.0° East (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 37.4° North, 16.3° East (Wright 2013) | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Jurassic | Epoch: | Early Jurassic |
| Stage: | Hettangian | 10 m.y. bin: | Jurassic 1 |
| Key time interval: | Late Hettangian | Ammonoid zone: | Schlotheimia angulata |
| Age range of interval: | 201.4 - 199.5 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Luxembourg Sandstone | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Schlotheimia complanata Subzone. Bed is 38.7 m above base of section and ca. 10 m below transition to Sinemurian Strassel Marl and Limestone Formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | coarse,shelly/skeletal conglomeratic "carbonate" |
| Secondary lithology: | claystone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Sands and calcarenites with intercalated clays, overlain by conglomeratic lumachelle horizons (i.e. coarse-grained coquina layers yielding concentrations of fossils) and cross-bedded sands and marls. The fossiliferous horizon is a lumachelle bed. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
| Fragmentation: | occasional |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,survey of museum collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | general faunal/floral analysis | Collection dates: | 1980s |
| Collection method comments: Repository: National Natural History Museum of Luxembourg | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 155210 | ||
| Authorizer: | P. Mannion | Enterer: | J. Tennant |
| Modifier: | M. Carrano | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-04-01 00:59:53 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-04-01 00:59:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 50597. | D. Delsate and M. D. Ezcurra. 2014. The first Early Jurassic (late Hettangian) theropod dinosaur remains from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Geological Belgica 17(2):175-181 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant/M. Carrano] |