Upper Ceratitenschichten, Forstberg, Mühlhausen: Ladinian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea - Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Aspidura scutellata (Blumenbach 1803)
1 individual
recombined as Aspiduriella scutellata
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany State/province:Thuringia
Coordinates: 48.1° North, 8.6° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.1° North, 17.5° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Ladinian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Ladinian
Age range of interval:242.00000 - 237.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Muschelkalk
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: upper Ceratites bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:deep subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Preservation of anatomical detail:poor
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:89875
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:M. Carrano Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-06-19 14:25:55 Last modified:2022-11-09 15:56:24
Access level:the public Released:2009-06-19 14:25:55
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

29995. A. H. Müller. 1976. Zur Taphonomie, Ichnologie und Ökologie triadischer Ophiuroidea (Echinodermata). Zeitschrift für geologische Wissenschaften 10:1399-1411 [L. Villier/L. Villier]