Bommelscheier industrial area, Bascharage: Falciferum, Luxembourg

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri - Pholidophoriformes
Pholidophorus friedeni Delsate 1999
Taverne and Steurbaut 2017 1 specimen
recombined as Luxembourgichthys friedeni
MNHNL TU 763
Actinopteri - Leptolepidiformes - Leptolepididae
Leptolepis sp. Agassiz 1832
2 specimens
TU 734, 819
Leptolepis normandica Nybelin 1962
6 specimens
TU 718, 745, 747, 749, 790, 686
Leptolepis ? normandica Nybelin 1962
2 specimens
TU 746, 702
Insecta - Hemiptera - Xulsigiidae
Xulsigia karetsa n. gen., n. sp. Szwedo et al. 2017
Szwedo et al. 2017 1 specimen
MNHNL TV045
see common names

Geography
Country:Luxembourg
Coordinates: 49.6° North, 6.0° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.2° North, 14.8° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Toarcian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 3
Key time interval:Falciferum
Age range of interval:184.20000 - 182.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 'Couches à Harpoceras falciferum (lo1)', Lower Jurassic, lower Toarcian, Serpentinum (Falciferum) Chronozone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified carbonaceous "shale"
Secondary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Museum of Natural History in Luxembourg
Metadata
Database number:148844
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:P. Vazquez, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology,vertebrate
Created:2013-07-26 08:24:52 Last modified:2019-06-12 21:12:31
Access level:the public Released:2013-07-26 08:24:52
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

47737. D. Delsate. 1997. Actinoptérygiens du Toarcien inférieur du Grand Duché de Luxembourg: Présence de Leptoplepis normandica Nybelin 1962 (Téléostéen) avec otolithes in situ. Travaux scientifiques du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle de Luxembourg 27:125-129 [M. Clapham/P. Vazquez/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

69169 J. Szwedo, R. Weis, and A. Nel. 2017. A bizarre sternorrhynchan wing from the Lower Jurassic of Luxembourg (Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha: Pincombeomorpha?). Historical Biology 31:806-812 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
66348 L. Taverne and E. Steurbaut. 2017. Osteology and relationships of Luxembourgichthys ("Pholidophorus") friedeni gen. nov. (Teleostei, "Pholidophoriformes") from the Lower Jurassic of Belgium and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Geologica Belgica 20:53-67 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]