Crickley Hill (BMNH collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 8.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Crickley Member (Birdlip Limestone Formation), Murchisonae (175.6 - 171.6 Ma)

• M. murchisoni zone - now considered Aalenian in age (was late Toarcian in Beauvais)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified marl

• Recif de Crickley

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Beauvais. 1970. Madreporaires du Dogger: etude des types de Milne-Edwards et J. Haime [Dogger Scleractinia: a study of types from the Milne-Edwards and J. Haime collections]. Annales de Paleontologie, Invertebres 56(1):37-74 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77240: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 07.01.2008, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Cidaroida - Heterocidaridae
Heterocidaris wickensis Wright 1861 pencil urchin
 Cidaroida - Polycidaridae
Anisocidaris bouchardii Wright 1851 pencil urchin
 Cidaroida - Rhabdocidaridae
Rhabdocidaris horrida Agassiz 1840 pencil urchin
 Pedinoida - Pedinidae
Hemipedina ferryi Cotteau 1860 sea urchin
Hemipedina perforata pisolitica in Richardson & Paris 1908
 Echinothurioida - Pelanechinidae
"Soudetaster martinezae n. sp." = Pseudopedina bakeri
"Soudetaster martinezae n. sp." = Pseudopedina bakeri Wright 1854 sea urchin
Anthozoa
 Scleractinia - Andemantastraeidae
Vallimeandropsis davidsoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 stony coral