St Ives brick pit (SM collection) (Jurassic of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Howe brick pit

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.3° N, 0.1° W: paleocoordinates 43.0° N, 9.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Mariae ammonoid zone, Weymouth Member (Oxford Clay Formation), Early/Lower Oxfordian (161.2 - 155.7 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; poorly lithified, pyritic claystone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the SM

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: J. Carter. 1886. On the decapod crustaceans of the Oxford Clay. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society, London 42:542-559 [C. Schweitzer/E. Johnson]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93210: authorized by Loic Villier, entered by Loic Villier on 08.01.2010, edited by Evaline Johnson

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
 Calycina -
Trochotiara superbum Agassiz 1840 sea urchin
Malacostraca
 Decapoda - Paguridae
Goniochirus cristatus Carter 1886 hermit crab
Pagurus sp. Fabricius 1775 hermit crab
 Decapoda - Erymidae
Eryma mandelslohi von Meyer 1840 decapod
 Decapoda - Glypheidae
"Glyphea hispida" = Trachysoma rostrata
"Glyphea hispida" = Trachysoma rostrata Phillips 1829 decapod
 Decapoda - Mecochiridae
Mecochirus socialis Von Meyer 1841 decapod
 Decapoda - Eryonidae
Eryon sublevis n. sp. Carter 1886 decapod