Ophiuroidea, Pliensbachian, Staithes, Yorkshire, UK (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.6° N, 0.8° W: paleocoordinates 41.9° N, 6.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Aegoceras capricornus ammonoid zone, Green Ammonite Beds Member (Charmouth Mudstone Formation), Early/Lower Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• Prodactylioceras davoei Zone, Aegoceras capricornus Subzone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; poorly lithified marl

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the BMNH

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 59031: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 07.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
Palaeocoma milleri Phillips 1829 brittle star
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Ophiomusium murravii Forbes 1843 brittle star