Laineck marine invertebrates (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Bayern, Germany (50.0° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 16.4° N, 19.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Muschelkalk Group, Middle Triassic (247.2 - 237.0 Ma)

• Assumed Middle Triassic based on age of other local collections

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: G. A. Goldfuss. 1863. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Petrefacten Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Länder. Divisio Quarta: Molluscorum acephalicorum reliquiae. Muschelthiere der Vorwelt. 1. Bivalvia. Petrefacta Germaniae 4(1):1-273 [A. Dunhill/B. Allen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 201350: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.05.2019

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Bivalvia
 Nuculida - Nuculidae
Nucula excavata Goldfuss 1837 nut clam
Nucula goldfussii Alberti 1863 nut clam
Nucula munsteri Goldfuss 1863 nut clam
 Pterioida - Prospondylidea
"Ostrea difformis" = Terquemia difformis
"Ostrea difformis" = Terquemia difformis Schlotheim 1820 clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae
Ostrea subanomia Münster 1856 oyster
Ostrea spondyloides Schlotheim 1820 oyster
Ostrea placunoides Münster 1863 oyster
Ostrea complicata Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Ostrea reniformis Münster 1863 oyster
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
"Spondylus comtus" = Neomorphotis comta
"Spondylus comtus" = Neomorphotis comta Goldfuss 1863 scallop
 Pectinida - Hunanopectinidae
"Pecten inaequistriatus" = Leptochondria albertii
"Pecten inaequistriatus" = Leptochondria albertii Goldfuss 1838 scallop
 Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Myacites obtusus Goldfuss 1863 clam
Myacites grandis Münster 1863 clam
 Carditida - Myophoricardiidae
"Nucula gregaria" = Pseudocorbula gregaria, "Nucula incrassata" = Pseudocorbula incrassata
"Nucula gregaria" = Pseudocorbula gregaria Münster 1838 clam
"Nucula incrassata" = Pseudocorbula incrassata Münster 1863 clam