Ophiuroidea, Campanian, Montbré, Marne, France (Cretaceous of France)

Where: France (49.2° N, 4.0° E: paleocoordinates 39.7° N, 5.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Campanian (83.6 - 72.1 Ma)

• Zone with Micraster glyphus

Environment/lithology: offshore ramp; wackestone

• "chalk of Reims"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: A. Peron. 1887. Notes pour servir à l'histoire du terrain de craie dans le sud-est du bassin anglo-parisien, avec notes et descriptions d'Echinides nouveaux ou peu connus par MM Gauthier et Lambert. Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Historiques et Naturelles de l'Yonne 41:145-224 [L. Villier/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 58925: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 01.03.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
"aff. Ophioglypha serrata" = Ophiura serrata
"aff. Ophioglypha serrata" = Ophiura serrata Roemer 1841 brittle star
few articles and fragments of arm