Where: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany (54.1° N, 13.0° E: paleocoordinates 43.7° N, 17.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified claystone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, original calcite, replaced with pyrite
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: M. Kutscher. 1988. Zur Invertebratenfauna und Stratigraphie des oberen Pliensbachien von Grimmen (DDR), Echinodermata. Freiberger Forschungsheft C419:62-70 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 32015: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 31.05.2003
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Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
"Chladocrinus basaltiformis" = Isocrinus (Chladocrinus) basaltiformis
"Chladocrinus basaltiformis" = Isocrinus (Chladocrinus) basaltiformis Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Ophiuroidea | |
? Ophioderma dentata n. sp. Kutscher 1988 brittle star
Palaeocoma milleri Phillips 1829 brittle star | |
Asteroidea | |
? Pentasteria ? hastingiae Forbes 1848 sea star |