Ophiuroidea, Lower Turonian, Bestvina, Czech Republic (Cretaceous of Czech Republic)

Where: Czech Republic (49.8° N, 15.6° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 14.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Bìlà Hora Formation, Early/Lower Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Lower part of the Bìlà Hora Formation.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; poorly lithified siltstone

• The Bohemian material comes from nearshore deposits.
• Siltstones (Bìlà Hora Formation) overlying conglomerate (Korycany Member of the Peruc-Korynacy Formation)

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

• 2 vertebrae

Primary reference: R. Storc. 2004. The Late Cretaceous brittle star Ophiosmilax? alternatus from Europe and northern Africa. Géobios 37:395-401 [L. Villier/J. Millet/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 62043: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 11.07.2006, edited by Loic Villier and Uta Merkel

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Taxonomic list

Stenolaemata
 Cyclostomata - Eleidae
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
"? Ophiura substriata" = Ophioderma substriatum1
"? Ophiura substriata" = Ophioderma substriatum1 Rasmussen 1950 brittle star
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiobyrsidae
"? Ophiosmilax alternatus" = Ophiosmilax alternatus, "Transspondylus cf. bubnoffi" = Ophiosmilax alternatus1
"? Ophiosmilax alternatus" = Ophiosmilax alternatus Kutscher and Jagt 2000 brittle star
"Transspondylus cf. bubnoffi" = Ophiosmilax alternatus1 Kutscher and Jagt 2000 brittle star
 Euryalida - Asteronychidae
Asteronychidae indet.1 Müller and Troschel 1840 basket star
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
? Ophiura serrata1 Roemer 1841 brittle star