Where: United Kingdom (51.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 8.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Forest Marble Formation (Great Oolite Group), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
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 59035: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 07.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiopetra bathonica n. sp.
Ophiopetra bathonica n. sp. Hess 1964 brittle star |