Mottgers, Germany: Pelsonian, Germany

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Hirsutella hirsuta
rare category
Unclassified to avoid ambiguity with Hirsutella hirsuta (d'Orbigny, 1839): Foraminiferida. These can not be disentangled.
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Coenothyris vulgaris (Schlotheim 1820)
common category
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Pennospiriferinidae
Punctospirella fragilis (Schlotheim 1814)
rare category
original and current combination Terebratula fragilis
Polychaeta - Sabellida - Serpulidae
? Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
encrusting
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Anomiidae
Placunopsis ostracina (Schlotheim 1820)
abundant category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Limidae
Plagiostoma lineatum
abundant category
Plagiostoma radiatum
abundant category
? Plagiostoma ? costatum
rare category
Plagiostoma striatum (Schlotheim 1820)
rare category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
Pleuronectites sp. Schlotheim 1820
rare category
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Terquemiidae
Newaagia noetlingi
common category
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Mysidiellidae
"Mytilus" praecursor Renz 1904
common category
recombined as Promysidiella eduliformis praecursor
"Mytilus" eduliformis? praecursor
Bivalvia - Pterioida - Prospondylidea
Enantiostreon difforme (Schlotheim 1820)
abundant category
recombined as Terquemia difformis
Bivalvia - Lucinida - Mactromyidae
Unicardium schmidi
common category
Bivalvia - Trigoniida - Myophoriidae
Neoschizodus sp. Giebel 1855
rare category
Gastropoda
Omphaloptycha gregaria (Schlotheim 1820)
common category
original and current combination Buccinites gregarius
Crinoidea - Encrinida - Encrinidae
Encrinidae indet. Dujardin and Hupé 1862
common category
holdfasts and ossicles
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Cidaridae
Cidaris grandaeva (Goldfuss 1874)
rare category
Echinoidea - Cidaroida - Serpianotiaridae
Serpianotiaris sp. (Jeannet 1933)
rare category
original and current combination Miocidaris (Serpianotiaris)
unclassified
Talpina gruberi
bioeroder
Calciroda kraichgovia
bioeroder
see common names

Geography
Country:Germany
Coordinates: 50.3° North, 9.7° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:15.8° North, 18.9° East
Basis of coordinate:stated in text
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Triassic Epoch:Middle Triassic
Stage:Anisian 10 m.y. bin:Triassic 2
Key time interval:Pelsonian
Age range of interval:244.70000 - 243.80000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Lower upper Anisian
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified bindstone
Secondary lithology: lithified packstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Bivalve-crinoid bioherm
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm Tectonic setting:cratonic basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,original calcite
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial orientation:life position
Preservation of anatomical detail:good
Articulated whole bodies:many
Bioerosion:occasional
Encrustation:extreme
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Metadata
Also known as:Reef 71
Database number:34703
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:W. Kiessling
Modifier:W. Kiessling Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2003-09-17 02:08:41 Last modified:2003-09-17 05:08:42
Access level:the public Released:2003-09-17 02:08:41
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

9198. W. Klotz and V. Lukas. 1988. Bioherme im Unteren Muschelkalk (Trias) Südosthessens. Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie Monatshefte 1988:661-669 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]