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  • 标题:Jaws of a large belemnite and an ammonite from the Aalenian (Middle Jurassic) of Switzerland
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  • 作者:Christian Klug ; Walter Etter ; René Hoffmann
  • 期刊名称:Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
  • 印刷版ISSN:1664-2376
  • 电子版ISSN:1664-2384
  • 出版年度:2020
  • 卷号:139
  • 期号:1
  • 页码:1-11
  • DOI:10.1186/s13358-020-00207-7
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:SpringerOpen
  • 摘要:Abstract Although belemnite rostra can be quite abundant in Jurassic and Cretaceous strata, the record of belemnite jaws was limited to a few specimens from Germany and Russia. Here, we describe and figure three cephalopod jaws from the Middle Jurassic Opalinus Clay of northern Switzerland. Although flattened, the carbonaceous fossils display enough morphological information to rule out an ammonoid, nautiloid or octobrachian origin of the two larger jaws. Their similarities to belemnite jaws from Germany and Russia conforms with our interpretation of these specimens as belemnite jaws. Based on their rather large size, we tentatively assign these two jaws to the megateuthidid Acrocoelites conoideus. The third jaw is a rather small upper jaw of an ammonoid. Since Leioceras opalinum is by far the most common ammonite in this unit in northern Switzerland, we tentatively suggest that the upper jaw belongs to this species.
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