Elsworth (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Yorkshire, United Kingdom (52.3° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 42.9° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Cardioceras cordatum ammonoid zone, West Walton Formation, Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• "Lower Elsworth Rock Series"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SM

Primary reference: A. B. Smith. 2015. British Jurassic regular echinoids. Part 1, Introduction, Cidaroida, Echinothurioida, Aspidodiadematoida and Pedinoida. Monograph of the Palaeontographical Society 169(644):1-67 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 196016: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Anisocidaris smithii Wright 1857 pencil urchin