Gumma Farm, Presteigne (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Gomey Quarry, Presteigh; Rock Bridge Quarry

Where: United Kingdom (52.3° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.6° S, 12.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Whitcliffe (421.3 - 419.2 Ma)

• from "the upper part of the Upper Ludlow" (i.e., Whitcliffe)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Reposited in the MfN

• "Most of the specimens described in this paper occur as external moulds... studied by means of rubber latex casts"

•type specimen is lost but was originally in the MfN

Primary reference: W. H. C. Ramsbottom. 1958. British Upper Silurian crinoids from the Ludlovian. Palaeontology 1:106-115 [G. Webster/G. Webster]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 119406: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Pisocrinida - Pisocrinidae
"Lagarocrinus anglicus n. sp." = Cicerocrinus anglicus
"Lagarocrinus anglicus n. sp." = Cicerocrinus anglicus Jaekel 1900 Sea lily