Dudelange-Zoufftgen Section, Bed 8 (Jurassic of Luxembourg)

Where: Luxembourg (49.5° N, 6.1° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 15.9° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Thouarsense (180.1 - 175.6 Ma)

• Thouarsense et Bingmanni subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; brown marl

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 2003

Collection methods: sieve,

Primary reference: D. Delsate and R. Weis. 2010. La Couche à Crassum (Toarcien moyen) au Luxembourg: stratigraphie et faunes de la coupe de Dudelange-Zoufftgen. Ferrantia 62:35-62 [M. Aberhan/T. Schossleitner/T. Schossleitner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 141386: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Thomas Schossleitner on 26.03.2013

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Megateuthididae
 Ammonitida - Hildoceratidae
Grammoceras thouarsense d'Orbigny 1844 ammonite
Pseudogrammoceras bingmanni Denckmann 1887 ammonite
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Deuteropoda
  -
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida -
Ophiurida indet. Müller and Troschel 1840 brittle star
Chondrichthyes
 Heterodontiformes - Heterodontidae
Paracestracion sp. Koken in Zittel 1911 bullhead shark
"Heterodontus" duffini Thies 1983 bullhead shark
 Euselachii - Protospinacidae
Protospinax sp. Woodward 1919 elasmobranch
 Rajiformes - Archaeobatidae
Toarcibatis sp. Delsate and Candoni 2001 ray
 Orectolobiformes - Hemiscylliidae
Palaeobrachaelurus sp. Thies 1983 carpet shark
Gnathostomata
  -
Actinopterygii indet. ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
 Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Leptolepis sp. Agassiz 1832