Where: United Kingdom (51.4° N, 0.1° E: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 2.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Upper Chalk Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, white wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: W. K. Spencer. 1907. A Monograph of the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous formations. Volume second: The Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Paleontographical Society Monographs 2(4):91-132 [L. Villier/J. Millet/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 59054: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 08.03.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiura serrata Roemer 1841 brittle star |