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

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 40.0° N, 2.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Holaster subglobosus other zone, Lower Chalk Formation, Middle Cenomanian to Middle Cenomanian (99.6 - 93.5 Ma)

• Holaster subglobosus zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, glauconitic, gray, 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 63042: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 03.08.2006, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Ophiotitanos laevis Spencer 1907 brittle star
Actinopteri
 Salmoniformes - Prionolepididae
Prionolepis angustus Egerton 1850
 Beryciformes - Hoplopterygiidae