Where: Swabia, Germany (48.5° N, 9.4° E: paleocoordinates 39.6° N, 17.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Hybonotum zone, sponge facies Member (Hangende Bankkalke Formation), Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)
• reddish marly layer below a 1 m thick limestone bed with numerous platychonians
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; mudstone
Size class: mesofossils
Collected by Feifel; reposited in the SMNS
Primary reference: H. Hess. 2002. Remains of saccocomids (Crinoidea: Echinodermata) from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) (329) [V. Syverson/V. Syverson/V. Syverson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 186331: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 20.06.2017
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Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Saccocoma cf. tenella Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily |