Echinodermata, Argovian, Guldenthal, Kt. Solothurn (Jurassic of Switzerland)

Where: Switzerland (47.3° N, 7.6° E: paleocoordinates 38.4° N, 16.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Argovian Group, Late/Upper Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• Lower Late Oxfordian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; unlithified claystone

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: H. Hess. 1966. Mikropaläontologische Untersuchungen an Ophiuren. V. Die Ophiuren aus dem Argovien (unteres Ober-Oxford) von Guldenthal (Kt. Solothurn) und von Savigna (Dépt. Jura). Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae 59(2):1025-1063 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 61723: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 24.06.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Globothalamea
 Rotaliida - Discorbidae
Foraminifera
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 Lituolida - Lituolidae
 Lagenina - Robuloididae
Nodosariata
 Polymorphinida - Polymorphinidae
 Vaginulinida - Vaginulinidae
 Nodosariida - Nodosariidae
Foraminifera
 Spirillinina - Spirillinidae
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Aplocomidae
Sinosura wolburgi Hess 1960 brittle star
30 lateral plates, 298 vertebrae, 5 oral plates, 10 arm fragments
? Ophiopetra oertlii Hess 1965 brittle star
515 lateral plates, 6 arm fragments
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Ophiomusium gagnebini Thurmann 1851 brittle star
233 lateral plates, 37 vertebrae
Ophiomusium mammillatum n. sp. Hess 1966 brittle star
343 lateral plates
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiacanthidae
? Ophiacantha suprajurassica Hess 1965 brittle star
38 lateral plates
Ophiacantha constricta n. sp. Hess 1966 brittle star
25 lateral plates
 Amphilepidida - Hemieuryalidae
? Hemieuryale argoviensis n. sp. Hess 1966 brittle star
2 lateral plates, 3 vertebrae
Asteroidea
 Forcipulatida - Asteriidae
Asteriidae indet. Gray 1840 sea star
 Paxillosida - Astropectinidae
Pentasteria cf. recta McCoy 1848 sea star
 Valvatida - Goniasteridae
Goniasteridae indet. Forbes 1841 sea star
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Pentacrinitidae
? Pentacrinus sp. Miller 1821 Sea lily
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae
Balanocrinus pentagonalis Goldfuss 1831 Sea lily
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Paguridae
Goniochirus sp. Etallon 1861 hermit crab
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Macrocyprididae
 Podocopida - Bythocytheridae
 Podocopida - Cytheruridae
? Eocytheropteron sp. Alexander 1933 ostracod
 Podocopida - Cytherideidae
 Podocopida - Cytheridae
 Podocopida - Brachycytheridae