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 | |
Trochotiara superbum Agassiz 1840 sea urchin | |
Malacostraca | |
Goniochirus cristatus Carter 1886 hermit crab
Pagurus sp. Fabricius 1775 hermit crab | |
Eryma mandelslohi von Meyer 1840 decapod | |
"Glyphea hispida" = Trachysoma rostrata
"Glyphea hispida" = Trachysoma rostrata Phillips 1829 decapod | |
Mecochirus socialis Von Meyer 1841 decapod | |
Eryon sublevis n. sp.
Eryon sublevis n. sp. Carter 1886 decapod |