Ludford Corner, Platyschisma Shale Member, Ludlow, Shropshire, England (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 24.1° S, 11.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: tripapillatus-spicula spore zone zone, Platyschisma Shale Member (Downton Castle Sandstone Formation), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• 1.6 m above the top of the main bone bed, and 1.4 m above the locality described in record 11128

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, gray siltstone

• formed offshore within wavebase (Richardson & Rasul 1990)
• Blu/grey muddy siltstones containing abundant coalified finely disseminated plant debris.

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: D. Edwards, K. L. Davies, J. B. Richardson, C. H. Wellman, and L. Axe. 1996. Ultrastructure of Synorisporites downtonensis and Retusotriletes cf. coronadus in spore masses from the Pridoli of the Welsh Borderland. Palaeontology 39(3):783-800 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11218: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 24.07.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Edwards 1996 does not distinguish which fossils were found in the Lower Bone Bed member and which were found in this member. All the NAMED described remains are listed in this record. (See 11128 for more info)
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unclassified
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Rhyniophytina indet.2, Plantae indet.3, Plantae indet.
Rhyniophytina indet.2
3 taxa of rhyniophytoids (undescribed)
Plantae indet.3 Haeckel 1866
sporangia bearing tetrads assigned to Velatitetras sp. and Tetrahedraletes medinensis
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
spore masses containing Synorisporites downtonensis and other types
Rhyniopsida
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? Rhyniopsida indet.1
? Rhyniopsida indet.1 Kryshtofovich 1925
discoid sporangia containing Synorisporites verrucatus
1Edwards et al. 1995; 2Edwards and Wellman 2001; 3Edwards et al. 1999