Echinoderms, Angulatus zone, Hettangian, Schaffhausen, Hallau: Early/Lower Hettangian, Switzerland

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Bairdiidae
Bairdia amalthei
Asteroidea
Plesiastropecten hallovensis n. sp. Peyer 1944
1 specimen
Ophiuroidea - Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae
Aplocoma brevispina n. sp. Hess 1985
Hess 1985 25 specimens
about 25 complete individuals
Crinoidea - Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Chladocrinus angulatus
Hess 1985 3 specimens
3 fragments
see common names

Geography
Country:Switzerland County:Schaffhausen
Coordinates: 47.7° North, 8.5° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:36.8° North, 11.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:hand sample
Time
Period:Jurassic Epoch:Early/Lower Jurassic
Stage:Hettangian 10 m.y. bin:Jurassic 1
*Period:Early/Lower Jurassic - Early/Lower Jurassic
*International age/stage:Hettangian - Hettangian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Hettangian Zone: liasicus
Age range of interval:201.40000 - 199.50000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Local section:Hallau Local bed:Psilonotenbank
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Angulatus zone
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green poorly lithified claystone
Secondary lithology: poorly lithified calcareous sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:offshore Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,recrystallized,replaced with calcite,replaced with pyrite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils
Articulated whole bodies:some
Associated major elements:some
Disassociated minor elements:some
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:selective quarrying,mechanical,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:32019
Authorizer:L. Villier Enterer:L. Villier
Modifier:L. Villier Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-06-01 05:44:44 Last modified:2006-02-14 10:39:27
Access level:the public Released:2003-06-01 05:44:44
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

16625. B. Peyer. 1944. Beiträge zur Kenntnis von Rhät und Lias [Contributions to knowledge of the Rhaetian and Lias]. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetiae 36(7):303-326 [L. Villier/L. Villier/M. Carrano]

Secondary references:

8590 H. Hess. 1985. Schlangensterne und Seelilien aus dem unteren Lias von Hallau (Kanton Schaffausen). Mitteilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft Schaffhausen 33:1-15 [L. Villier/L. Villier/L. Villier]