Woodland Beds, Leicestershire, England - Ford 1980 (Ediacaran to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 1.3° W: paleocoordinates 72.9° S, 88.7° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wonokan to Wonokan (580.0 - 580.0 Ma)

• The use of Ediacaran as a stage instead of an Epoch shows that the relative dating scale utilized predates the wide acceptance of Ediacaran as the second Vendian division (Harland and Harod 1975). The Woodhouse Beds lay above the Slate Agglomerate.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology:

• lithology not listed

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: T. D. Ford. 1980. The Ediacaran fossils for Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire. Proceedings of the Geologist's Association 91:81-83 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10287: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 02.04.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• The collection record includes preliminary data collected by Boyton and published in the Mercian Geologist, Vol. 6. It should be noted that some of Boyton's """"fossils"""" most likely turned out to be pseudofossils as interpretted by Ford's comment: """"All the occurrences of proven fossils in Charnwood Forest are in the stratigraphic unit known as the Woodhouse Beds,"""", while Boyton described some occurring in the Blackbrook Beds.
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Pseudovendia charnwoodensis
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Pseudovendia charnwoodensis
Pseudovendia charnwoodensis Boynton and Ford 1979
 Arboreomorpha -
Charniodiscus concentricus
unclassified
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Problematica indet.
Problematica indet. Andrews 1970
Aspidella terranovica
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"Cyclomedusa davidi" = Aspidella terranovica
"Cyclomedusa davidi" = Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872