South Ferriby Section, bed 8 [Red Chalk]: Late/Upper Albian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Crinoidea
- Cyrtocrinida
- Sclerocrinidae
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Hemicrinus canon
(Seeley 1866)
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R category | ||||||
| original and current combination Torynocrinus canon | |||||||
| see common names | |||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
| Coordinates: | 53.7° North, 0.5° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 42.0° North, 2.2° East | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Cretaceous | Epoch: | Early/Lower Cretaceous |
| Stage: | Albian | 10 m.y. bin: | Cretaceous 4 |
| Key time interval: | Late/Upper Albian | Ammonoid zone: | auritus |
| Age range of interval: | 106.20000 - 100.50000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Red Chalk | ||||
| Local section: | South Ferriby | Local bed: | 8 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From the Red Chalk, which overlies the Carstone Fm (Early Albian). AGE: Late Albian; auritus ammonoid zone. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From bed 8, near middle of the section (Fig. 4). | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | poorly lithified chalk |
| Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Chalk LITHIFICATION: Assumed to be poorly-lithified. | |
| Environment: | carbonate indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,original calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,surface (in situ),sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: COLLECTORS: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Liverpool Museum (LIVCM). | |
| Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for crinoids; presumably ammonites are also present. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication, with modern nomenclature, and some species-resolution identifications. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 161955 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Hendy | Enterer: | A. Hendy |
| Modifier: | A. Hendy | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2014-09-16 15:19:16 | Last modified: | 2014-09-16 15:25:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2014-09-16 15:19:16 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 52759. | S. F. Mitchell and D. Langner. 1995. Palaeobiology of isocrinid crinoids from the Red Chalk (Albian, Lower Cretaceous) of North− east England. Echinoderm Research 197-207 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy] |