Loc. #2 North Brown Clee Hill, Shropshire, UK (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.1° S, 8.6° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: micrornatus-newportensis spore zone (middle subzone) zone, Ditton Group, Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial; lithified, gray siltstone

• Grey siltstones with locally high concentrations of plant 'debris', with coalified sheets, and occasional coalified axes.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon, original sporopollenin, coprolite

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical,

Primary reference: D. Edwards, U. Fanning, and J. B. Richardson. 1994. Lower Devonian coalified sporangia from Shropshire; Salopella Edwards & Richardson and Tortilicaulis Edwards. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 116:89-110 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11112: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 17.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Numerous coprolites are reported. Also isolated sporangia bearing in situ spores are numerous but not all are included in the taxonomic list because they do not have formal names.
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unclassified
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Salopella cf. marcensis, Tortilicaulis offaeus n. sp., Resilitheca salopensis n. gen. n. sp.3, Tarrantia salopensis1, Pertonella sp.1, Culullitheca richardsonii n. gen. n. sp.6, Fusitheca fanningiae n. gen. n. sp.6, Grisellatheca salopensis n. gen. n. sp.4
Salopella cf. marcensis
with in situ spores (cryptospores)
Tortilicaulis offaeus n. sp.
trilete spores in situ
Resilitheca salopensis n. gen. n. sp.3
with in situ spores of Retusotriletes regulatus and R. philipsii type
Tarrantia salopensis1
?Retusotriletes inside
Pertonella sp.1
Retusotriletes coronadus inside
Culullitheca richardsonii n. gen. n. sp.6
in situ permanent dyads
Fusitheca fanningiae n. gen. n. sp.6
in situ permanent dyads
Grisellatheca salopensis n. gen. n. sp.4
in situ permanent tetrads
Sporogonites
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cf. Sporogonites sp.1
cf. Sporogonites sp.1 Halle 1916
crassitate and ornamented spores inside
Psilophytopsida
 Psilophytales -
Cooksonia ? cambrensis1, Cooksonia hemisphaerica1, Cooksonia pertoni1, Cooksonia pertoni5
Cooksonia hemisphaerica1 Lang 1937
Ambitisporites sp. inside
Cooksonia pertoni1 Lang 1937
Aneurospora sp. and Streelispora newportensis inside
Cooksonia pertoni5 Lang 1937
subsp. apiculispora
Rhyniopsida
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? Rhyniopsida indet.2
? Rhyniopsida indet.2 Kryshtofovich 1925
containing Streelispora newportensis
Eurypterida
 Eurypterida -
Eurypterida indet.
Eurypterida indet. Burmeister 1843 eurypterid
cuticles
1Edwards 1996; 2Edwards et al. 1995; 3Edwards et al. 1995; 4Edwards et al. 1999; 5Fanning et al. 1988; 6Wellman et al. 1998