Also known as "Mulde Brick clay"
Where: Gotland, Sweden (57.4° N, 18.2° E: paleocoordinates 20.6° S, 2.7° W)
• coordinate stated in text
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Gothograptus nassa-Pristiograptus dubius graptolite zone, Lower Member (Mulde Formation), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• Gothograptus nassa-Pristiograptus dubius graptolite Interregnum, Mulde Event, fauna 4 (survival phase of the Mulde Event), Halla Formation, Slite Group, Gleedon Stage, Wenlock Series, 428.1 ± 0.7 Mya11.
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Environment/lithology: limestone and marl
Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: B. Thuy, M. E. Eriksson, M. Kutscher, J. Lindgren, L. D. Nurnberger-Thuy and D. F. Wright. 2022. Miniaturization during a Silurian environmental crisis generated the modern brittle star body plan. Communications Biology 5(14) [V. Syverson/V. Syverson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 224103: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 15.01.2022
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
Muldaster haakei Thuy et al. 2022 brittle star |