Where: Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.5° E: paleocoordinates 38.3° N, 16.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Effinger Schichten Formation, Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified, burrowed, calcareous sandstone
Collection methods: quarrying, chemical,
Primary reference: C. A. Meyer. 1984. Palökologie und Sedimentologie der Echinodermenlagerstätte Schofgraben (mittleres Oxfordian, Weissenstein, Kt. Solothurn). Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 77(3):649-673 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 58565: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 14.02.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiomusium gagnebini Thurmann 1851 brittle star | |
? Ophiopetra oertlii Hess 1965 brittle star
Sinosura wolburgi Hess 1960 brittle star | |
Asteroidea | |
"Pentasteria longispina" = Pentasteria (Archastropecten) longispina
"Pentasteria longispina" = Pentasteria (Archastropecten) longispina Hess 1968 sea star | |
Malacostraca | |
Eryma sp. Von Meyer 1840 decapod | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Dichotomoceras sp." = Perisphinctes (Dichotomoceras)
"Dichotomoceras sp." = Perisphinctes (Dichotomoceras) ammonite |