Asteroidea, Middle Bathonian, Windrush Quarry, Gloucestershire (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.8° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Taynton Limestone Formation, Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• Progracilis to Subcontractus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified grainstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 1993. A new asteroid genus from the Jurassic of England and its functional significance. Palaeontology 36(1):147-154 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59884: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 19.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Spinulosida - Plesiosolasteridae
"Brachisolaster moretonis" = Plesiosolaster moretonis
"Brachisolaster moretonis" = Plesiosolaster moretonis Forbes 1856 sea star