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  • Saccocoma tenella GOLDFUSS, 1831

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    Taxonomy

    Floating crinoid

    Kingdom: Animalia
    Phylum: Echinodermata
    Class: Crinoidea
    Order: Roveacrinida
    Family: Saccocomidae
    Genus: Saccocoma
    Species: Saccocoma tenella
    Author Citation GOLDFUSS, 1831

    Geological Time Scale

    Eon: Phanerozoic
    Era: Mesozoic
    Period: Jurassic
    Sub Period: None
    Epoch: Late
    International Age: Tithonian

    Stratigraphy

    Weissjura Group
    Altmühltal Formation

    Biostratigraphy

    Hybonoticeras hybonotum Zone
    Lithacoceras riedense Subzone

    Provenance

    Collector: T. Bastelberger
    Date Collected: 06/01/1969
    Acquired by: Field Collection

    Dimensions

    Diameter: 4 cm

    Location

    Solnhofen, Untere Haardt
    District Eichstätt
    Bavaria
    Germany

    Comments

    Saccocoma tenella is the most common macrofossil of the Solnhofen Limestone.

    Taxonomy from Hess & Etter 2011.

    Reconstruction from Milson 1994, p. 123:

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    References;
    Milsom, C. (1994) Saccocoma: a benthic crinoid from the Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone, Germany. Palaeontology, 37, 1, 121–129. 

    H. Hess & W. Etter (2011): Life and death of Saccocoma tenella (GOLDFUSS). Swiss Journal of Geosciences 104(S1) · December 2011

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    Tidgy's Dad

    Tidgy's Dad

    Posted

    But that's a very nicely preserved specimen, much nicer than most I have seen. 

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