Ludlow (general GSM collection) (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (52.4° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 27.5° S, 12.9° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)

• "Lower Ludlow Beds" (i.e., Gorstian)

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified 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"

•GSM 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 119407: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 24.10.2011

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Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Hapalocrinidae
Hapalocrinus quinquepennis Ramsbottom 1958 Sea lily