Gutterford Burn Starfish Bed, North Esk Inlier, Pentland Hills (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (55.8° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.9° S, 20.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Deerhope Member, Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• Deerhope Formation, North Esk Inlier, Midlothian, Scotland

•Silurian, Llandovery, upper Telychian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; massive siltstone and sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Primary reference: S. K. Donovan, F. E. Fearhead, E. N. K. Clarkson and M. Donovan. 2011. Aspects of crinoid palaeontology of the North Esk Inlier, Scotland (Silurian, Llandovery, Telychian). Palaeontology 54(2):241-252 [V. Syverson/V. Syverson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 224104: authorized by Val Syverson, entered by Val Syverson on 15.01.2022

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Asteroidea
 Euaxosida - Palasterinidae
Schuchertia wenlocki Spencer 1922 sea star
 Euaxosida -
Taeniactis wenlocki Spencer 1922 sea star
Lepyriactis nudus Spencer 1927 sea star
  -
Proactis wenlockensis Spencer 1914 sea star
 Hadrosida - Urasterellidae
Urasterella gutterfordensis Spencer 1918 sea star
? Urasterella gutterfordensis Spencer 1918 sea star
Ophiuroidea
 Oegophiurida - Protasteridae
Furcaster leptosoma Salter 1857 brittle star
  - Encrinasteridae
Crepidosoma wenlocki Spencer 1930 brittle star
Echinoidea
 Echinocystitoida -
Crinoidea
  -
Pentagonocyclicus lamonti Donovan et al. 2011 Sea lily
 Myelodactylida - Myelodactylidae
 Pisocrinida - Pisocrinidae
Pisocrinus cf. campana Miller 1891 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Dendrocrinidae
Dendrocrinus ? sp. Hall 1852 Sea lily
 Diplobathrida - Dimerocrinitidae
 Monobathrida - Patelliocrinidae