Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 2.7° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Chalk Formation, Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)
• Holaster subglobosus zone
• group-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, glauconitic, white, argillaceous 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 59055: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 08.03.2006, edited by Loic Villier and Matthew Clapham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
Hoplopteryx lewesiensis2 Mantell 1822 | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Amphiura cretacea Spencer 1907 brittle star | |
Ophiocoma rasmusseni n. sp.1
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Ophiotitanos laevis Spencer 1907 brittle star
Ophiotitanos tenuis Spencer 1907 brittle star
Ophiotitanos magnus Spencer 1907 brittle star |