Starfish beds, Charmouth, Dorset (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.7° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 37.9° N, 6.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pliensbachian (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)

• about 1 m thick

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal; lithified, bioturbated, micaceous siltstone and poorly lithified claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float),

Primary reference: P. E. Negus. 1983. Distribution of the British Jurassic corals. Proceedings of the Geologists` Association 94(3):251-257 [W. Kiessling/B. Brenneis/B. Brenneis]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 42242: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Benjamin Brenneis on 27.07.2004, edited by Loic Villier

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Microsolenidae
Tricycloseris anningi Tomes 1878 stony coral
Holotyp
 Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Montlivaltia foliacea stony coral
Holotyp
Ophiuroidea
 Ophiacanthida - Ophiodermatidae
Palaeocoma milleri Phillips 1829 brittle star
Ophioderma tenuibrachiata Forbes 1843 brittle star
 Ichnofossils -
Chondrites sp. von Sternberg 1833
Thalassinoides sp. Ehrenberg 1944