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: Dyrham Formation, Margaritatus (189.6 - 183.0 Ma)
• Presumably from the Eype Starfish bed
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: W. J. Broderip. 1835. Description of some fossil Crustacea and Radiata. Proceedings of the Geological Society of London 2:201-202 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 139749: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 17.02.2013
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
"Ophiura egertoni n. sp." = Palaeocoma milleri
"Ophiura egertoni n. sp." = Palaeocoma milleri Phillips 1829 brittle star |