Where: Germany (50.0° N, 11.6° E: paleocoordinates 17.6° N, 18.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: nodosus ammonoid zone, Meissner Formation, Fassanian (242.0 - 235.0 Ma)
• Stratigraphic position: mo3, Upper Muschelkalk, middle Ladinian, nodosus biozone
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by Werner Hernus in 2008; reposited in the FMNH
Primary reference: D. B. Blake, A. Tintori, and T. Kolar-Jurkovsek. 2017. New Triassic Asteroidea (Echinodermata) specimens and their evolutionary significance. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia 123:319-333 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 187348: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Asteroidea | |
Trichasteropsis weissmanni von Münster 1843 sea star |