Codiacrinus schultzei FOLLMANN, 1887

Taxonomy

Sea Lily

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Crinoidea MILLER 1821
Order: Caythocrinida BATHER 1890
Family: Codiacrinidae BATHER 1890
Genus: Codiacrinus
Species: Codiacrinus schultzei
Author Citation FOLLMANN, 1887

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Devonian
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Emsian (early)

Stratigraphy

Hunsrück Slate Group
Kaub Formation

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Dimensions

Length: 18 cm
Width: 6 cm

Location

Eschenbach-Bocksberg Quarry
Bundenbach
Rhineland-Palatinate
Germany

• bundenbach
• codiacrinus
• devonian
• emsian
• eschenbach
• kaub formation
• schultzei
• tff-oilshale-ec2112

Comments

Roofing slate mining in Bundenbach (Eschenbach-Bocksberg mine) was discontinued in 1999.

Taxonomy according to Fossilworks.
Diagnosis in Südkamp, 2011: "The large, bowl-shaped cup is composed of three low infrabasals and two uninterrupted circlets of large, five-sided basals and radials. The angustary radial facets are horseshoe-shaped. The basals and radials have a striated surface sculpture (hexagonal concentric lines). The uniserial arms branch isotomously on primibrach three normally and heterotomously higher in the crown. The secundi- and tertibrachs have thorn-shaped plates aborally. The circular xenomorphic stem lacks a radix."

Identified by oilshale.

References:
Follmann, O. (1887) Unterdevonische Crinoiden. Verhandlungen des naturhistorischen Vereins der preussischen Rheinlande, Westfalens und des Regierungs-Bezirks Osnabrück 44 (fünfte Folge: 4. Jahrgang): 113–138.
Südkamp, Wouter. (2011) Redescription of the cyathocrinid cladid Codiacrinus schultzei Follmann, 1887 from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate at Bundenbach (Germany). Paläontologische Zeitschrift. 85. 241-255. 10.1007/s12542-010-0089-2.
Ausich, W.I., Bartels, C. & Kammer, T.W. (2013) Tube foot preservation in the Devonian crinoid Codiacrinus from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany. Lethaia, Vol. 46, pp. 416–420.