PBDB Collection

Gutterford Burn Starfish Bed, North Esk Inlier, Pentland Hills: Telychian, United Kingdom

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea - Echinocystitoida

	Aptilechinus caledonensis
Ophiuroidea - Oegophiurida - Protasteridae

	Furcaster leptosoma (Salter 1857)
Ophiuroidea - Encrinasteridae

	Loriolaster sp. Stürtz 1886

	Crepidosoma wenlocki Spencer 1930
Asteroidea - Euaxosida

	Taeniactis wenlocki Spencer 1922

	Lepyriactis nudus Spencer 1927
Asteroidea - Euaxosida - Palasterinidae

	Schuchertia wenlocki Spencer 1922

	Palasterina antiqua (Hisinger 1837)
Asteroidea - Hadrosida - Urasterellidae

	Urasterella gutterfordensis Spencer 1918
Asteroidea - Hemizonida - Taeniactinidae

	Protactis wenlockensis (Spencer 1922)
see common names

Formation:	Reservoir	Member:	Gutterford Burn Flagstones
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: PJW: Upper part of the formation, which is Telychian. These were called the Gutterford Burn Flagstones, so I've used that as a member.

Modes of preservation:	body
Size of fossils:	macrofossils,mesofossils

Collection excludes:	some macrofossils
Collection methods:	field collection,survey of museum collection
Reason for describing collection:	general faunal/floral analysis