Notes on Mississippian echinoderms from Hurdlow,Derbyshire, central England |
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| Authors: | Stephen K Donovan AJ de Winter |
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| Institution: | 1. Taxonomy and Systematics Group, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, the Netherlands;2. Department of Earth Sciences, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada |
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| Abstract: | The fossil echinoderms of the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian) of Derbyshire remain understudied, principally due to the nature of the preservation rather than any lack of biodiversity. Echinoids and crinoids are described in float blocks of limestone from near Hurdlow, Derbyshire, which have been etched naturally after many years of being washed by weakly acidic rain. Surface detail is variable, commonly poor, but rare specimens retain enough features for tentative identification. Two species of echinoids are identified from rare disarticulated plates, namely Melonechinus? sp. (ambulacral plates) and archaeocidarid sp. (interambulacral plate); more and superior material will be necessary to confirm this division. Crinoids include a cladid brachial ossicle sp. with a distinctive sculpture; a columnal of a monobathrid camerate platycrinitid sp.; Annulocolumnus (col.) sp. cf. A. annulus Donovan, a columnal morphotaxon with an unusually broad axial canal; and Cyclocyclicus (col.) spp. This is the tenth echinoid site to be recognized from the Mississippian of the White Peak. Examination of etched float blocks provides a further method of investigation of the echinoderm fauna of this and other limestone areas. |
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| Keywords: | Corresponding author at: Taxonomy and Systematics Group Naturalis Biodiversity Center Postbus 9517 2300 RA Leiden the Netherlands Field guides Monsal Dale Limestone Formation Brigantian Crinoids Echinoids |
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