Crackers, Atherfield (Wright collection): Early/Lower Aptian, United Kingdom
collected by C.W. Wright, E.V. Wright

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Diplobelida - Diplobelidae
Conoteuthis dupiniana d'Orbigny 1842
Jeletzky 1981
corrected as Conoteuthis dupinianus
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Etyidae
Etyus jacksoni
Wright and Collins 1972
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Viaiidae
Vectis wrighti n. gen., n. sp. Withers 1946
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Torynommidae
Withersella sp. Wright and Collins 1972
Wright and Collins 1972
Withersella crepitans Wright and Collins 1972
Wright and Collins 1972
Malacostraca - Decapoda - Longodromitidae
Glaessnerella balli (Wright and Collins 1972)
Wright and Collins 1972
Thecostraca - Scalpellomorpha - Scalpellidae
Arcoscalpellum comptum (Withers 1910)
recombined as Jaegerscalpellum comptum
Virgiscalpellum wrighti n. sp. Withers 1946
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Isle of Wright
Coordinates: 50.6° North, 1.4° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:40.7° North, 9.7° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Cretaceous Epoch:Early/Lower Cretaceous
Stage:Barremian
Key time interval:Early/Lower Aptian Ammonoid zone: Deshayesites forbesi
Age range of interval:121.40000 - 119.50000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Atherfield Clay Member:Crackers
Stratigraphy comments: "Crackers bed (Lower Aptian, Dehayesites forbesi Zone, Dehayesites callidiscus subzone)"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,cast
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:C.W. Wright, E.V. Wright
Metadata
Database number:171903
Authorizer:C. Schweitzer, M. Clapham Enterer:L. Baltzly, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:decapod,marine invertebrate
Created:2015-07-22 14:57:08 Last modified:2020-07-18 21:43:14
Access level:the public Released:2015-07-22 14:57:08
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
73083. T. H. Withers. 1946. New Cretaceous cirripedes and crab. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Eleventh Series 12:552-561 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

73566 J. A. Jeletzky. 1981. Lower Cretaceous diplobelinid belemnites from the Anglo-Paris basin. Palaeontology 24:115-145 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
55837decapod C. W. Wright and J. S. H. Collins. 1972. British Cretaceous Crabs. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 1-114 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly]