Frick (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Aargau, Switzerland (47.5° N, 8.0° E: paleocoordinates 36.5° N, 13.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Semicostatum other zone, Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• Layer 14 is about 50 cm thick and consists of quite resistant calcarenites rich in reworked phosphoritized moulds of invertebrates and phosphatic pebbles

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1961-1988

Primary reference: M. W. Maisch, A. G. Reisdorf, R. Schlatter and A. Wetzel. 2008. A large skull of Ichthyosaurus (Reptilia: Ichthyosauria) from the Lower Sinemurian (Lower Jurassic) of Frick (NW Switzerland). Swiss Journal of Geoscience 101:617-627 [P. Mannion/J. Tennant]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 142834: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Jonathan Tennant on 17.04.2013

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ichthyosauria - Ichthyosauridae
Ichthyosaurus communis
Ichthyosaurus communis Conybeare 1821 ichthyosaur
SMF 46, incomplete skull