Light Beck (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Underbarrow

Where: United Kingdom (54.3° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 21.6° S, 12.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Bannisdale Slates Formation, Leintwardine (421.3 - 419.2 Ma)

• "Lower Ludlow, Bannisdale Slates, Monograptus leintwardinensis Zone... 'Asterias Bed'"

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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

•SM collection

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 119401: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.10.2011

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Taxocrinida - Taxocrinidae
"Ichthyocrinus mccoyanus n. sp." = Eutaxocrinus maccoyanus
"Ichthyocrinus mccoyanus n. sp." = Eutaxocrinus maccoyanus Salter 1873 Sea lily