Schümel quarry, Holderbank AG (Effingen Member): Middle Oxfordian, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Cidaroida
Plegiocidaris coronata (Schlotheim 1820)
recombined as Plegiocidaris coronatus
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Psychocidaridae
Merocidaris propinqua (Muenster 1826)
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Paracidaris blumenbachi (Muenster 1826)
Polycidaris spinosa (Agassiz 1840)
Polycidaris escheri (de Loriol 1868)
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland
Coordinates: 47.4° North, 8.2° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:38.5° North, 17.0° East
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Late/Upper Jurassic
Stage:Oxfordian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 5
Key time interval:Middle Oxfordian Ammonoid zone: Gregoryceras transversarium
Age range of interval:161.50000 - 154.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Wildegg Member:Effingen
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Repository: Fondation Paléontologique Jurassienne (FPJ), Naturhistorischen Museum der Burgergemeinde Bern (NMBE)
Metadata
Database number:196408
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2018-09-12 23:25:42 Last modified:2018-09-12 23:47:11
Access level:the public Released:2018-09-12 23:25:42
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
66793. B. Hostettler and U. Menkveld-Gfeller. 2015. Die Cidariden (Echinoidea, Echinodermata) der Wildegg-Formation (mittleres Oxfordien, Schweizer Jura). Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève 34:195-233 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]