Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (48.1° N, 8.5° E: paleocoordinates 13.2° N, 19.6° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Muschelkalk Group, Olenekian to Olenekian (251.2 - 242.0 Ma)
• Assumed to be Early - Middle Triassic based on 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 201358: authorized by Alex Dunhill, entered by Bethany Allen on 05.05.2019
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Avicula crispata Goldfuss 1863 clam | |
Ostrea complicata Goldfuss 1833 oyster
Ostrea spondyloides Schlotheim 1820 oyster | |
"Lyrodon goldfussii" = Myophoria (Costatoria) goldfussi
"Lyrodon goldfussii" = Myophoria (Costatoria) goldfussi Alberti 1830 clam | |
"Arca minuta" = Nuculana minuta
"Arca minuta" = Nuculana minuta Müller 1776 pointed nut clam | |
Nucula munsteri Goldfuss 1863 nut clam |