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Bundenbachia beneckei STÜRTZ, 1886

Bundenbachia beneckei STÜRTZ, 1886
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Bundenbachia beneckei STÜRTZ, 1886
Bundenbachia beneckei STÜRTZ, 1886
Bundenbachia beneckei STÜRTZ, 1886
Bundenbachia beneckei STÜRTZ, 1886
Bundenbachia beneckei STÜRTZ, 1886
Bundenbachia beneckei STÜRTZ, 1886

Products description

Here is a remarkable brittle star of the species Bundenbachia beneckei in a rarely seen absolute top preservation. The fossil is very inflated, heavily pyritisized and shows the finest details. The species Bundenbachia beneckei once was revised as Taeniaster (by SPENCER, 1934), but has been re-evaluated by new scientific investigations  There are also some other sysnonym of this species known. [1]
The Fossil itself measures about 53 mm.


[1] Glass 2006, New observations on some poorly known protasterid ophiuroids from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate of Germany 
 
 

Location:

Bundenbach,  Hunsrück, Deutschland 
Size Plate:about 105 x 110 mm
Age:Middle Devonian, lower Emsian , Hunsrück shale (Ca. 400Mill. Years)

Product no.: 3903