Echinoderms, Grünsand, Oligocene, Magdeburg (Oligocene of Germany)

Where: Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany (52.1° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 51.9° N, 8.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Oligocene (33.9 - 23.0 Ma)

• Dated as middle Oligocene

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; unlithified, glauconitic sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the MfN

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve,

Primary reference: M. Kutscher. 1985. Die Echinodermen des Magdeburger Grünsandes (Mittel-Oligozän). Abhandlungen und Berichte für Naturkunde 12(6):3-14 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 32013: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 31.05.2003

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Cidaridae
"Stereocidaris anhaltina" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris)
"Stereocidaris anhaltina" = Temnocidaris (Stereocidaris) pencil urchin
fragments, spines
 Clypeasteroida - Fibulariidae
 Spatangoida - Spatangidae
Maretia cf. hoffmanni heart urchin
fragments
 Diadematoida - Diadematidae
Palaeodiadema reingardae sea urchin
fragments, spines
Asteroidea
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Ceramaster cf. brandenensis Rasmussen 1951 sea star
marginal plates
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
? Ophiura sp. Lamarck 1801 brittle star
one lateral plate