Ophiuroidea, Down Hatherley, Gloucestershire, UK (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 38.6° N, 3.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Arietites bucklandi ammonoid zone, Blue Lias Formation (Lias Group), Early/Lower Sinemurian (196.5 - 189.6 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified limestone

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Primary reference: H. Hess. 1964. Die Ophiuren des englischen Jura. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetia 57(2):755-821 [L. Villier/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59028: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 07.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
? Ophiomusium ramsayi Wright 1866 brittle star
Crinoidea
 Isocrinida - Isocrinidae