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SUBMITTER: Thuy B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7450995 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Thuy Ben B Numberger-Thuy Lea L Jagt John W M JWM
PeerJ 20200824
A new species of brittle star, <i>Ophiomitrella floorae</i>, is recorded from the lower two meters of the Gronsveld Member (Maastricht Formation), of late Maastrichtian age (c. 66.7 Ma). These relatively fine-grained biocalcarenites reflect shallow-water deposition in a sheltered setting with a relatively firm sea floor and clear waters, under middle sublittoral and subtropical conditions. Associated echinoderm taxa comprise more robust, sturdy-plated ophiomusaid and ophiodermatid brittle stars ...[more]