Crackers, Atherfield (Wright collection) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 1.4° W: paleocoordinates 40.7° N, 9.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Deshayesites forbesi ammonoid zone, Crackers Member (Atherfield Clay Formation), Early/Lower Aptian (121.4 - 122.5 Ma)

• "Crackers bed (Lower Aptian, Dehayesites forbesi Zone, Dehayesites callidiscus subzone)"

Environment/lithology: marine; siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast

Collected by C.W. Wright, E.V. Wright

Primary reference: T. H. Withers. 1946. New Cretaceous cirripedes and crab. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 12:552-561 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 171903: authorized by Carrie Schweitzer, entered by Lerin Baltzly on 22.07.2015, edited by Matthew Clapham

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Diplobelida - Diplobelidae
"Conoteuthis dupiniana" = Conoteuthis dupinianus1
"Conoteuthis dupiniana" = Conoteuthis dupinianus1 d'Orbigny 1842 belemnite
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Torynommidae
Withersella sp.2 Wright and Collins 1972 crab
Withersella crepitans2 Wright and Collins 1972 crab
 Decapoda - Etyidae
 Decapoda - Viaiidae
Vectis wrighti n. gen. n. sp.
Vectis wrighti n. gen. n. sp. Withers 1946 crab
 Decapoda - Longodromitidae
Glaessnerella balli2 Wright and Collins 1972 crab
Thecostraca
 Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Virgiscalpellum wrighti n. sp., "Arcoscalpellum comptum" = Jaegerscalpellum comptum
Virgiscalpellum wrighti n. sp. Withers 1946 barnacle
"Arcoscalpellum comptum" = Jaegerscalpellum comptum Withers 1910 barnacle