El Pujolet, Upper Muschelkalk, Collbato, Cataluna (Triassic of Spain)

Where: Cataluna, Spain (41.6° N, 1.8° E: paleocoordinates 5.2° N, 15.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Single steeply-dipping bedding surface.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lime mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ),

• Specimens collected with power tools.

Primary reference: A. B. Smith and J. Gallemi. 1991. Middle Triassic holothurians from northern Spain. Palaeontology 34(1):49-76 [D. Bottjer/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 44261: authorized by David Bottjer, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.09.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
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Ophiuroidea indet. Gray 1840 brittle star
Holothuroidea
 Dendrochirotida - Heterothyonidae
Strobilothyone rogenti n. gen. n. sp.
Strobilothyone rogenti n. gen. n. sp. Smith and Gallemi 1991 sea cucumber
Crinoidea
 Encrinida - Encrinidae
Encrinus sp. Lamarck 1801 Sea lily