Opalinuston Formation
105 distinct taxa, from 1,085 fossil occurrences the Paleobiology Database records under this name.
The Paleobiology Database files this name in 2 countries. That can be one body of rock crossing a border, or two rocks that happen to share a name. The database does not say which, so nothing below is added across them.
Recorded under country code CH
39 taxa · 715 fossils · 175–171 MyaMacrostrat dates this rock 184–171 Ma. Macrostrat’s own record
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4 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Planolites
- Bositra buchi
- Parainoceramya dubia
- Cingentolium (Cingentolium) cingulatum
- Astarte
- Toarctocera subpunctata
- Palaeonucula hammeri
- Nuculana
- Tancredia
- Decapoda
- Grammatodon
- Thalassinoides
- Jurapseudes friedericianus
- Chondrites
- Didymaulichnus
- Palaeophycus tubularis
- Mecochirus eckerti
- Thecocyathus mactra
- Amberleya
- Costatrochus subduplicatus
- Palaega jurassica
- Promathildia
- Cryptaulax armatum
- Hemipedina
- Pinna
- Eryma compressum
- Modiolus
- Plagiostoma
- Pronoella
- Chariocrinus
- Goniomya literata
- Gyrolithes
- Homoeorhynchia
- Mesomiltha
- Pseudolimea duplicata
- Rhizocorallium
- Spirodesmos
- Trachysoma pustulosa
- Urda
Baden-Württemberg, Baden-Wuürttemberg · DE
72 taxa · 370 fossils · 180–171 MyaMacrostrat dates this rock 184–171 Ma. Macrostrat’s own record
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11 distinct localities, where the rock is now rather than where it was laid down. Tectonics draws the world it belonged to.
When
What has been found
- Ammobaculites subcretaceus
- Reinholdella
- Reophax
- Leioceras
- Leioceras opalinum
- Aphelocythere
- Planularia
- Praeschuleridea
- Orthonotacythere
- Pleydellia
- Paracypris
- Kinkelinella
- Cenosphaera
- Leioceras subcostosum
- Paronaella
- Polycope pelta
- Acrocythere
- Haplophragmium
- Laxtorum
- Monoceratina
- Parvicingula
- Pleydellia buckmani
- Polycope
- Citharina
- Orbiculiforma
- Triactoma
- Tritrabs
- Bythocypris
- Crucella
- Leioceras comptum
- Pleydellia misera
- Spongostaurus
- Spongotripus
- Stenopterygius
- Bredyia subinsignis
- Cytherelloidea
- Dapedium
- Homoeoparonaella
- Nassellaria
- Palaega jurassica
The 40 most often recorded, of 72.
What else lived thenRank the rock of a period
Counts are of occurrence records, which measure the rock and the fieldwork together.