Folkestone (Holaster subglobosus zone) (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

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

• grey chalk

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
 Beryciformes - Hoplopterygiidae
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Ophiomusium sp.1 Lyman 1869 brittle star
1 lateral plate
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Ophiotitanos laevis Spencer 1907 brittle star
Ophiotitanos magnus Spencer 1907 brittle star
Ophiotitanos tenuis Spencer 1907 brittle star
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiocomidae
Ophiocoma rasmusseni n. sp.1 Hess 1960 brittle star
1 arm fragment
 Amphilepidida - Amphiuridae
Amphiura cretacea Spencer 1907 brittle star