Table 2. Ophiuroid lateral arm plate counts of Cretaceous shallow-water assemblages.
Locality | Formation | Age | Ophiacanthidae | Ophiuridae | Ophiolepididae |
Folkestone (UK) | Gault Clay, level 2 | Albian | 11 | 0 | 72 |
Folkestone (UK) | Gault clay, level 6 | Albian | 0 | 0 | 206 |
Mosqueruela (E) | Mosqueruela Formation | Aptian | 17 | 9 | 535 |
Saginaw, Texas (USA) | upper Duck Creek Formation | Albian | 0 | 0 | 100 |
Waco, Texas (USA) | Del Rio Formation | Cenomanian | 1 | 0 | 58 |