Where: Czech Republic (50.5° N, 14.1° E: paleocoordinates 40.5° N, 13.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Teplice Formation, Late/Upper Turonian (93.5 - 89.3 Ma)

• Ophiuroid material was collected from beds referred to as the “Hundorfer Kalkstein” (= Hundorf limestone), for which a perplexus/lamarcki/stuemckei/inaequivalvis inoceramid assemblage has been documented, and the overlying “Rhynchonellenschichten” (= Rhynchonella beds), with a labiatoidiformis/striatoconcentricus inoceramid assemblage

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified wackestone and lithified marl

Size class: mesofossils

Collection methods: bulk, sieve,

Primary reference: R. Storc and J. Zitt. 2008. Late Turonian ophiuroids (Echinodermata) from the Bohemian Cretaceous Basin, Czech Republic. Bulletin of Geosciences 83(2):123-140 [L. Villier/L. Villier]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 99235: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 03.11.2010, edited by Uta Merkel and Mihaela Krause

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