Where: Wiltshire, United Kingdom (51.4° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 42.0° N, 8.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Cardioceras tenuiserratum ammonoid zone, Coral Rag Member (Coralline Oolite Formation), Middle Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)
• Plicatilis subzone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by T. Wright; reposited in the BMNH
Primary reference: T. Wright. 1851. On the Cidaridae of the Oolites, with a description of some new species of that family. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 8:241-280 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 196009: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.09.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea | |
"Cidaris smithii" = Anisocidaris smithii, Paracidaris florigemma
"Cidaris smithii" = Anisocidaris smithii Wright 1857 pencil urchin
Paracidaris florigemma Phillips 1829 pencil urchin | |
"Hemipedina corallina" = Pelanechinus corallinus
"Hemipedina corallina" = Pelanechinus corallinus Wright 1858 sea urchin |