Sucia Island (Cretaceous of the United States)

Where: Washington (48.8° N, 122.9° W: paleocoordinates 54.7° N, 85.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Cretaceous (100.5 - 66.0 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the UCMP

Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 1973. Ossicle morphology of some recent asteroids and description of some West American fossil asteroids. University of California Publications in Geological Sciences 104:1-59 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59921: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 20.04.2006

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Paxillosida - Pseudarchasteridae
Sucia suavis n. gen. n. sp.
Sucia suavis n. gen. n. sp. Blake 1973 sea star