Steige Urach-Sirchingen, about 1 km from Sirchingen (Jurassic of Germany)

Where: Swabia, Germany (48.5° N, 9.4° E)

• Paleocoordinates: 31.4° N, 22.6° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Hybonotum zone, sponge facies Member (Hangende Bankkalke Formation), Early/Lower Tithonian (149.2 - 145.1 Ma)

• reddish marly layer below a 1 m thick limestone bed with numerous platychonians

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; mudstone

Size class: mesofossils

Collected by Feifel; reposited in the SMNS

Primary reference: H. Hess. 2002. Remains of saccocomids (Crinoidea: Echinodermata) from the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany. Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) (329) [V. Syverson/V. Syverson/V. Syverson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 186331: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 20.06.2017

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Roveacrinida - Saccocomidae
Saccocoma cf. tenella Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily