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
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 | |
Ophiotitanos laevis Spencer 1907 brittle star | |
Actinopteri | |
Prionolepis angustus Egerton 1850 | |
Hoplopteryx lewesiensis Mantell 1822 |