Where: Netherlands (52.0° N, 6.8° E: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 7.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• The ~4 m of Rhaetian shales at Quarry IV disconcordantly overlie the Anisian strata, and, in turn, are disconcordantly overlain by Oligocene clays.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: paralic; lithified shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with pyrite

Collected in 2006, 2007

• Repository: Naturalis Biodiversity Center (Leiden; NCB-RGM 344 003–344 037) and Freriks Museum, Winterswijk (FMW 0242–21364)

Primary reference: B. Thuy, A. A. Klompmaker, and J. W. M. Jagt. 2012. Late Triassic (Rhaetian) ophiuroids from Winterswijk, the Netherlands; with comments on the systematic position of Aplocoma (Echinodermata, Ophiolepididae). Zoosymposia 7:163-172 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 137660: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 18.12.2012, edited by Thomas Schossleitner

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