Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 13.0° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus tumescens [= incipiens] zone, Pterinea Beds Member (Wilsonia Shales Formation), Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)
• Lower half of the Pterinea Beds just a few metres above the junction with the underlying 'Shales with thin slumps' division.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: basinal (); siltstone and gray siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon
Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,
• Plants first noted by Straw (1953) and later by Baker & Hughes, 1979. This is the most comprehensive account.
Primary reference: D. Edwards, M. G. Bassett, and C. W. Rogerson. 1979. The earliest vascular land plants: continuing the search for proof. Lethaia 12:313-324 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10661: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 08.06.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Psilophytopsida | |
Hostinella | |
Hostinella sp. Barrande 1882 | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Bivalvia | |
Pterinea tenuistriata n. sp.
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
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Brachiopoda | |
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Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Pterobranchia | |
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Graptolitidae | |
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