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
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Conoteuthis dupiniana
d'Orbigny 1842
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Jeletzky 1981 | ||||||
corrected as Conoteuthis dupinianus | |||||||
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Etyidae
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Etyus jacksoni
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Wright and Collins 1972 | ||||||
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Viaiidae
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Vectis wrighti n. gen., n. sp.
Withers 1946
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Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Torynommidae
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Withersella sp.
Wright and Collins 1972
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Wright and Collins 1972 | ||||||
Withersella crepitans
Wright and Collins 1972
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Wright and Collins 1972 | ||||||
Malacostraca
- Decapoda
- Longodromitidae
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Glaessnerella balli
(Wright and Collins 1972)
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Wright and Collins 1972 | ||||||
Thecostraca
- Scalpellomorpha
- Scalpellidae
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Arcoscalpellum comptum
(Withers 1910)
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recombined as Jaegerscalpellum comptum | |||||||
Virgiscalpellum wrighti n. sp.
Withers 1946
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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] | |
55837 | decapod | C. W. Wright and J. S. H. Collins. 1972. British Cretaceous Crabs. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 1-114 [C. Schweitzer/L. Baltzly] |