Where: Germany (52.3° N, 10.0° E: paleocoordinates 18.3° N, 16.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Muschelkalk Group, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)
• Upper Muschelkalk
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified grainstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: One specimen figured by Eck (1875) and Schmidt (1928)
Primary reference: D. B. Blake and H. Hagdorn. 2003. The Asteroidea (Echinodermata) of the Muschelkalk (Middle Triassic of Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift 77(1):23-58 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59961: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 25.04.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Trichasteropsis weissmanni von Münster 1843 sea star
Trichasteropsis senfti Eck 1879 sea star |