Gale collection, Geisingen (Danube) quarry (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Baden-Württemberg, Germany (47.9° N, 8.7° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.1° N, 22.9° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crussoliceras divisum ammonoid zone, Lacunosamergel Formation, Kimmeridgian (157.3 - 152.1 Ma)

• "several metres above the base of the Kimmeridgian in the Lacunosamergel Formation" "According to A. S. Gale the bed is in the Platynota Zone, but it should rather be placed at the base of the Divisum Zone (G. Schweigert, personal communication 2013)."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, green mudstone

• "1 m thick greenish mudstone with common rhynchonellids"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by A.S. Gale

Collection methods: bulk,

• Reposited at Natural History Museum Basel

Primary reference: H. Hess. 2014. The crinoid Eugeniacrinites cariophilites from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany: babies, cripples and enigmatic wing plates. Swiss Journal of Palaeontology 133:121-140 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225669: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 24.05.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Crinoidea
 Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Crassicoma feifeli, Saccocoma quenstedti
Crassicoma feifeli Sieverts-Doreck and Hess 2002 Sea lily
Few cups
Saccocoma quenstedti Verniory 1961 Sea lily
Broken cups and brachials
 Cyrtocrinida - Eugeniacrinitidae
Eugeniacrinites cariophilites
Eugeniacrinites cariophilites von Schlotheim 1813 Sea lily
470 cups, 299 first primibrachials, 767 second primibrachials, 136 wing plates, attachment discs and columnals
 Cyrtocrinida - Sclerocrinidae
Pilocrinus moussoni
Pilocrinus moussoni Desor 1845 Sea lily
Cups, uncommon
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida -
Rhynchonellida indet.