Freshwater Steps, Encombe, Kimmeridge (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: Dorset, United Kingdom (50.6° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 41.4° N, 7.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pectinatites pectinatus ammonoid zone, Kimmeridge Clay Formation, Early/Lower Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: Museum of Jurassic Life, Kimmeridge (currently Steve Etches collection)

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 196247: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.09.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Hemipedina beaugrandi Rigaux 1882 sea urchin