Where: United Kingdom (51.1° N, 1.2° E: paleocoordinates 41.2° N, 3.4° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Upper Chalk Formation, Santonian (86.3 - 83.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore shelf; poorly lithified, white wackestone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: recrystallized, replaced with calcite
Reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: bulk,
Primary reference: W. K. Spencer. 1907. A Monograph of the British Fossil Echinodermata from the Cretaceous formations. Volume second: The Asteroidea and Ophiuroidea. Paleontographical Society Monographs 2(4):91-132 [L. Villier/J. Millet/L. Villier]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 63043: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Julien Millet on 03.08.2006
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ophiuroidea | |
"? Ophiura substriata" = Ophioderma substriatum
"? Ophiura substriata" = Ophioderma substriatum Rasmussen 1950 brittle star |