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Echinodermata resting place
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Taxonomy
Asteriacites lumbricalis, resting place
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: NA
Order: NA
Family: NA
Genus: Asteriacites
Species: Asteriacites lumbricalis
Author Citation SCHLOTHEIM, 1820
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Hettangian
Stratigraphy
Angulatensandstein Formation
Provenance
Collector: T. Bastelberger
Date Collected: 06/01/1988
Acquired by: Field Collection
Dimensions
Diameter: 5 cm
Location
Blumenrod
Coburg
Franken
Germany
- asteriacites lumbricalis
- blumenrod
- brittle star
- coburg
- cubichnia
- hettangian
- ophioderma escheri
- palaeocoma escheri
- resting place
Comments
Asteriacites lumbricalis are five-rayed trace fossils found in marine sedimentary rocks. They record the burrows of ophiuroid and asteroid sea stars on the sea floor. Here in this particular case it can be assumed that these traces originate from Palaeocoma escheri Herr, 1865 (or Ophioderma escheri), a brittle star, whose remains were found to hundreds in situ in the same layers.
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