Crickley Hill, Pea Grit (BGS) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Gloucestershire, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.6° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Crickley Member (Birdlip Limestone Formation), Aalenian (174.1 - 170.3 Ma)

• "Pea Grit"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified, shelly/skeletal, muddy grainstone and lithified, shelly/skeletal, muddy packstone

• rubbly, poorly sorted, shelly, shell-detrital, moderately to highly pisoidal grainstones and packstones ('Pea Grit') with thin marl beds

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BGS

Primary reference: X. Shi and R. E. Grant. 1993. Jurassic rhynchonellids: internal structures and taxonomic revisions. Smithsonian Contributions to Paleobiology 73:1-190 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 159751: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Marko Manojlovic on 08.08.2014, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Echinoidea
 Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Hemipedina perforata2
Hemipedina perforata2 Wright 1851 sea urchin
 Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Anisocidaris bouchardii2
Anisocidaris bouchardii2 Wright 1851 pencil urchin
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Tetrarhynchiidae
Costirhynchia costigera n. gen. n. sp.
Costirhynchia costigera n. gen. n. sp. Buckman 1917
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Curtirhynchia oolitica1
Curtirhynchia oolitica1 Davidson 1878
1Buckman 1917; 2Smith 2015