Marwood (parish): old quarries within village, 4.75 km NW of Barnstaple town ce (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Also known as The Square. SS543377. North Devon. Baggy Formation Gastropods

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 19.0° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Marwood Member (Baggy Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• Latest Devonian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; micaceous sandstone and siltstone

• Environment interpreted as nearshore.
• "The Baggy Formation is composed of alternating fine- and medium-grained sandstones, rich in mica and feldspar, and fine-grained sand- and siltstones as well as silty shales. These beds reach a max. thickness of some 450m and crop out along a narrow E-W strike N of Barnstaple..."

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M.R.W. Amler and D. Heidelberger. 2003. Late Famennian Gastropoda from south-west England. Palaeontology 46(6):1151-1211 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 68173: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 06.01.2007

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Taxonomic list

• Only gastropods listed; many other elements present.
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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Dictyotomaria eurocapillaria, "Phymatopleura aspera" = Dictyobembix aspera
Dictyotomaria eurocapillaria Amler and Heidelberger 2003 snail
"Phymatopleura aspera" = Dictyobembix aspera Sedgwick and Murchison 1840 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) subglobatus
Bellerophon (Bellerophon) subglobatus Sedgwick and M'Coy 1855 snail