Where: Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• hand sample-level geographic resolution
When: Argovian Group, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Lower Late Oxfordian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified claystone
Size class: mesofossils
Collection methods: bulk, sieve,
Primary reference: H. Hess. 1966. Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren. V. Die Ophiuren aus dem Argovien (unteres Ober-Oxford) von Guldenthal (Kt. Solothurn) und von Savigna (Dépt. Jura). Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 59(2):1025-1063 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 61723: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 24.06.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Asteriidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star | |
Pentasteria cf. recta McCoy 1848 sea star | |
Goniasteridae indet. Forbes 1841 sea star | |
Ophiuroidea | |
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? Hemieuryale argoviensis n. sp.
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Sinosura wolburgi Hess 1960 brittle star 30 lateral plates, 298 vertebrae, 5 oral plates, 10 arm fragments
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Crinoidea | |
Balanocrinus pentagonalis Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily | |
? Pentacrinus sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Ostracoda | |
Macrocypris aequabilis ostracod | |
Lophocythere multicostata ostracod | |
Monoceratina stimulea ostracod | |
? Eocytheropteron sp. Alexander 1933 ostracod | |
Galliaecytheridea postrotundata ostracod
Galliaecytheridea sp. ostracod
Schuleridea cf. triebeli ostracod | |
Macrodentina sp. ostracod | |
Malacostraca | |
Goniochirus sp. Etallon 1861 hermit crab | |
Foraminifera | |
Globothalamea | |
Nodosariata | |
Foraminifera | |