Ophiuroidea, Cenonian, Blandford, Dorset, UK (Cretaceous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (50.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 40.9° N, 0.2° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Chalk Formation, Coniacian to Coniacian (89.8 - 83.6 Ma)

• Micraster coranguinum zone

• 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 63048: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 03.08.2006

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