Ophiuroidea, Cenomanian, Abbots Cliff, Kent, UK (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.3° E: paleocoordinates 39.9° N, 2.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Lower Chalk Formation, Cenomanian (100.5 - 93.9 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, white wackestone

• white 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 63044: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 03.08.2006

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Taxonomic list

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Ophiuroidea
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiocomidae
? Ophiocoma rasmusseni
? Ophiocoma rasmusseni Hess 1960 brittle star
 Ophiurida - Ophiosphalmidae
Ophiomusium sp.
Ophiomusium sp. Lyman 1869 brittle star
 Ophiurida - Ophiuridae
Ophiotitanos tenuis
Ophiotitanos tenuis Spencer 1907 brittle star