Ophiuroidea, Bajocian, Scarborough, Yorkshire, UK (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (54.3° N, 0.4° W: paleocoordinates 43.4° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

When: Grey limestone Member (Inferior Oolite Formation), Early/Lower Bajocian (171.6 - 168.4 Ma)

• Teloceras blagdeni zone

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: open shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, gray packstone

Size class: macrofossils

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 59032: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 07.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Ophiomusium leckenbyi Wright 1880 brittle star