Harnage shale, Cound, Cressage, Shropshire (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 50.4° S, 17.2° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• hand sample-level geographic resolution

When: Harnage Shale Formation (Lower Caradoc Group), Caradoc (460.9 - 449.5 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mixed carbonate-siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Reposited in the BGS

Primary reference: D. B. Blake. 1994. Re-evaluation of the Palasteriscidae Gregory 1900 and the early phylogeny of the Asteroidea (Echinodermata). Journal of Paleontology 68:123-134 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 91180: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 09.09.2009

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Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Euaxosida - Platanasteridae
Platanaster ordovicus Spencer 1919 sea star