Foetz (Jurassic of Luxembourg)

Where: Mondercange, Luxembourg (49.5° N, 6.0° E: paleocoordinates 38.1° N, 14.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Harpoceras serpentinum ammonoid zone, Falciferum (183.0 - 182.0 Ma)

• Harpoceras serpentinum ammonite Zone (‘schistes bitumineux’)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, nodular, black shale

• Johnson et al. 2018: These outcrops are normally composed of bituminous black shales with inter- calated nodular limestone beds (Song et al. 2014; Hermoso et al. 2014; Nel and Weis 2017).

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg (MNHNL)

Primary reference: M. M. Johnson, M. T. Young, S. L. Brusatte, B. Thuy, and R. Weis. 2018. A catalogue of teleosauroids (Crocodylomorpha: Thalattosuchia) from the Toarcian and Bajocian (Jurassic) of southern Luxembourg. Historical Biology 31(9):1179-1194 [P. Mannion/G. Varnham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224066: authorized by Philip Mannion, entered by Grace Varnham on 12.01.2022, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Octopoda - Teudopsidae
Teudopsis bollensis
Teudopsis bollensis Voltz 1836 octopus
Associated with MNHNL TU 989
Reptilia
 Loricata - Teleosauridae
Platysuchus multicrobiculatus
Platysuchus multicrobiculatus Berckhemer 1929 marine crocodile
MNHNL TU 895 (partial anterior rostrum)
Actinopteri
 Pachycormiformes - Pachycormidae
Pachycormus macropterus
Pachycormus macropterus de Blainville 1818
MNHNL TU 989