Swartkops Brickfield Ophiuroid (Cretaceous of South Africa)
Where: South Africa (33.9° S, 25.6° E: paleocoordinates 45.2° S, 11.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Sundays River Formation, Late/Upper Valanginian (140.2 - 136.4 Ma)
• single specimen from a single bedding plane
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: foreshore; lithified, fine-grained mudstone
• "shallow tidal zone depositional environment"
• "massive fine-grained mudrock"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. W. Shone. 1986. A new ophiuroid from the Sundays River Formation (Lower Cretaceous), South Africa. Journal of Paleontology 60(4):904-910 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 65285: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.09.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• no other taxa are present at this level, but other invertebrates are found elsewhere in the quarry
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| Ophiuroidea | |
Ophiolancea swartkopensis n. gen. n. sp.
Ophiolancea swartkopensis n. gen. n. sp. Shone 1986 brittle star | |