Echinoderms, Upper Pliensbachian, Grimmen (Jurassic of Germany)

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
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
"Chladocrinus basaltiformis" = Isocrinus (Chladocrinus) basaltiformis
"Chladocrinus basaltiformis" = Isocrinus (Chladocrinus) basaltiformis Miller 1821 Sea lily
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
? Ophioderma dentata n. sp. Kutscher 1988 brittle star
Palaeocoma milleri Phillips 1829 brittle star
Asteroidea
 Neoasteroidea -
? Pentasteria ? hastingiae Forbes 1848 sea star