Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire, Brinkmarsh Beds, above upper limestone (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.2° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 17.4° S, 54.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Brinkmarsh Beds Formation, Wenlock (432.9 - 426.7 Ma)

• above upper limestone band

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; mudstone and shale

• BA 2 - taken from Cocks et al 2003.
• soft mudstones and shales throughout

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M.L.K. Curtis. 1972. The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 83(1):1-35 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/Z. Krug]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 49642: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 21.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

• The list is for the beds above the upper limestone bands of the Brinkmarsh Beds of the Tortworh Inlier...it is the combination of several localities around this area.
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Artiopoda
 Phacopida - Acastidae
Acaste cf. inflata, Acaste downingiae
Acaste downingiae Murchison 1839 trilobite
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Dalmanites spp., Dalmanites caudatus
Dalmanites spp. Barrande 1852 trilobite
Dalmanites caudatus Brünnich 1781 trilobite
 Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Homalonotus sp.
Homalonotus sp. König 1825 trilobite
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Leiopectinidae
Palaeopecten cf. danbyi
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
Pterinea cf. lineatula, "Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) cf. pleuroptera" = Actinopteria, Ptychopteria sp.
"Ptychopteria (Actinopteria) cf. pleuroptera" = Actinopteria oyster
Ptychopteria sp. Hall 1883 oyster
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Craniops implicata
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis, "Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa Sowerby 1824
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
"Amphistrophia funiculata" = Amphistrophiella funiculata
"Amphistrophia funiculata" = Amphistrophiella funiculata M'Coy 1846
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes cf. ceratoides
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia applanata, Coolinia pecten
Coolinia applanata Salter 1846
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina conservatrix
Salopina conservatrix McLearn 1924
 Orthida - Proschizophoriidae
Proschizophoria degelliana
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Camarotoechia cf. nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula, "Trigonirhynchia stricklandi" = Trigonirhynchia stricklandii
"Camarotoechia cf. nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula Sowerby 1839
"Trigonirhynchia stricklandi" = Trigonirhynchia stricklandii Sowerby and Murchison 1839
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristina obtusa
Meristina obtusa Dalman 1828
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella cf. angustiplicata
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella spp.
Fenestella spp. Lonsdale 1839
Tentaculita
  - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites anglicus
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites gothlandicus
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral