Sichtern near Liestal (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.5° N, 7.7° E: paleocoordinates 37.7° N, 17.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Lower varians-Schichten, crinoid bank with Chariocrinus leuthardti

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Zbinden

• Repository: collection Zbinden, CH-2563 Ipsach bei Biel

Primary reference: R. Forster. 1985. Frühe Anomuren und Brachyuren (Decapoda, Crustacea) aus dem Mittleren Dogger. Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und Historische Geologie 25:45-60 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 221296: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.07.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Prosopidae
Prosopidae "indet. B" von Meyer 1860 crab