Obere Ceratitenschichten, Mülhausen (Triassic of Germany)

Where: Thuringia, Germany (48.1° N, 8.6° E: paleocoordinates 14.1° N, 17.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Ceratitenschichten Member, Ladinian (242.0 - 237.0 Ma)

• Fish-bearing bed at the top of the Ceratitenschichten, upper Muschelkalk

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, sandy limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. H. Müller. 1976. Zur Taphonomie, Ichnologie und Ökologie triadischer Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata). Zeitschrift für geologische Wissenschaften 10:1399-1411 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 89874: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.06.2009

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Aplocomidae
"Acroura squamosa" = Arenorbis squamosus
"Acroura squamosa" = Arenorbis squamosus Picard 1858 brittle star
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Coenothyris vulgaris Schlotheim 1820
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia anisica Kozur 1970 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae