Ophiuroidea, Bathonian, Chippenham, Wiltshire, UK (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (51.5° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.1° N, 8.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: Forest Marble Formation (Great Oolite Group), Late/Upper Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: H. Hess. 1964. Die Ophiuren des englischen Jura. Eclogae Geologicae Helvetia 57(2):755-821 [L. Villier/J. Millet]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 59035: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 07.03.2006

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Taxonomic list

Ophiuroidea
 Ophiurida - Aplocomidae
Ophiopetra bathonica n. sp. Hess 1964 brittle star