Lotharingibelus n. gen., a new belemnite genus from the upper Toarcian Minette ironstones of the NE Paris Basin Author Weis, Robert Paleontological Department, National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg, 25 rue Münster L- 2160 Luxembourg (Luxembourg) robert. weis @ mnhn. lu robert.weis@mnhn.lu Author Mariotti, Nino Author Pignatti, Johannes Department of Earth Sciences, “ La Sapienza ” University, Rome (Italy) nino. mariotti @ fondazione. uniroma 1. it johannes. pignatti @ uniroma 1. it nino.mariotti@fondazione.uniroma1.it Author Delsate, Dominique Paleontological Department, National Museum of Natural History Luxembourg, 25 rue Münster L- 2160 Luxembourg (Luxembourg) dominique. delsate @ mnhn. lu dominique.delsate@mnhn.lu text Geodiversitas 2025 2025-12-18 47 23 767 781 journal article 313635 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a23 08de7583-cef9-45a4-8fea-8113af2d2b6c 1638-9395 17983102 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5EE9ED75-B90C-4AD2-AF4C-3557CD066F05

TABLE 2. — Measurements of Lotharingibelus meta (Blainville, 1827) n. comb. and Lotharingibelus subgiganteus (Branco, 1879) n. comb. Values in brackets represent estimates. Abbreviations: OR, orthorostrum; ER, epirostrum-bearing specimen; CI, compression index; EI, elongation index; AA, alveolar angle.

No.	Taxon	Collection number	TL	PAL	SD	LD	CI	EI	AA	Locality	Notes
Lotharingibelus meta n. comb.
1	–	UCBL-EM 75009	89	33	26	22	(1.25 at alveolus end)	0.79		near Nancy	Lectotype
2	–	MAN 2023.0.168	74	34	24	19	1.26	0.71	–	Lay-Saint-Christophe	Joly collection
3	–	MNHNL DOU989b	65	29	21	–	–	0.72	32°	Halanzy-Musson	–
4	–	MNHNL DOU989a	75	30	24	–	–	0.8	31°	Halanzy-Musson	–
5	–	MNHNL DOU989aa	66	31	-	18	–	–	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
6	–	MNHNL DOU989ac	62	26	23	19	1.21	0.88	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
7	–	MNHNL DOU989ae	62	30	24	19	1.26	0.8	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
8	–	MNHNL DOU989ad	62	27	21	17	1.24	0.78	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
9	–	MNHNL DOU989af	46	16	16	14	1.14	1.00	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
10	–	MNHNL DOU989ag	66	27	19	17	1.12	0.7	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
11	–	MNHNL DOU989ah	55	25	20	17	1.18	0.8	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
12	–	MNHNL DOU989ai	50	25	21	18	1.17	0.84	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
13	–	MNHNL DOU989ab	60	25	22	19	1.16	0.88	–	Halanzy-Musson	–
14	–	MNHNL DOU989f	64	24	21	19	1.10	0.88	30°	Halanzy-Musson	–
15	–	MNHNL DOU989g	72	26.5	20	16	1.25	0.75	29°	Halanzy-Musson	–
16	–	Benecke (1898: pl. 2 fig. 8)	–	–	–	–	–	0.7	(28°)	Algringen	–
Lotharingibelus subgiganteus n. comb.
17	[ER]	MNHNL TO265	240	(155)	(19)	(17)	(1.12)	(0.12)	–	Kiemerchen	Neotype
18	[OR]	MNHNL LG101	80	35	22	19	1.16	0.63	–	Rumelange	–
19	[OR]	MNHNL DOT505a	105	45	22	–	–	0.49	30°	Thil	TL with ER: 177 mm
20	[OR]	MNHNL DOT511b	103	43	18	14	1.11	0.42	28°	Kiemerchen
21	[OR]	Branco (1879: pl. 6, fig. 2e)	(67)	(55)	(18)	–	–	(0.33)	(33°)	Ars-sur-Moselle	TL with ER: (120) mm
22	[ER]	Branco (1879: pl. 6, fig. 2a-d)	(172)	–	–	–	–	–	–	Ars-sur-Moselle	–
23	[ER]	MAN 2023.0.166	158	(72)	(17)	–	–	(0.24)	–	Ludres	–