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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
Reptomultelea acupunctata2 Novak 1877 | |
Ophiuroidea | |
"? Ophiura substriata" = Ophioderma substriatum1
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"? Ophiosmilax alternatus" = Ophiosmilax alternatus, "Transspondylus cf. bubnoffi" = Ophiosmilax alternatus1
"? Ophiosmilax alternatus" = Ophiosmilax alternatus Kutscher and Jagt 2000 brittle star | |
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