Ophiuroidea, Rhaetian, Spinney Hill, Leicester, UK (Triassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 1.1° W: paleocoordinates 37.4° N, 1.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Upper Trias Formation, Rhaetian (208.5 - 201.3 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray mudstone

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 59042: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 07.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Amphilepidida - Ophiolepididae
Aplocoma sp. d'Orbigny 1852 brittle star