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 | |
Schuchertia wenlocki Spencer 1922 sea star | |
Taeniactis wenlocki Spencer 1922 sea star
Lepyriactis nudus Spencer 1927 sea star | |
Proactis wenlockensis Spencer 1914 sea star | |
Urasterella gutterfordensis Spencer 1918 sea star
? Urasterella gutterfordensis Spencer 1918 sea star | |
Ophiuroidea | |
Furcaster leptosoma Salter 1857 brittle star | |
Crepidosoma wenlocki Spencer 1930 brittle star | |
Echinoidea | |
Aptilechinus caledonensis sea urchin | |
Crinoidea | |
Pentagonocyclicus lamonti Donovan et al. 2011 Sea lily | |
Myelodactylus parvispinifer Sea lily | |
Pisocrinus cf. campana Miller 1891 Sea lily | |
Dendrocrinus extensidiscus Sea lily
Dendrocrinus ? sp. Hall 1852 Sea lily | |
Dimerocrinites pentlandicus Sea lily
Ptychocrinus longibrachialis Sea lily | |
Macrostylocrinus silurocirrifer Sea lily |