Ac2, Comley Quarry (Cambrian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 86.5° S, 19.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Callavia trilobite zone, Olenellus Limestone Member (Lower Comley Formation), Branchian (517.1 - 509.0 Ma)

• This should be Branchian given zonation.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: nodular, red, yellow, sandy limestone

• Rushton (1974): shallow-water environment
• Red or purple sandy limestone, nodular

Size classes: mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: replaced with calcite

Reposited in the BMNH

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: E.S. Cobbold. 1921. The Cambrian horizons of Comley (Shropshire) and their Brachiopoda, Pteropoda, Gasteropoda and etc. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 76:325-386 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 154889: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 17.03.2014

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Complete list:

•Micromitra (Paterina) labradorica

•Micromitra (Paterina) minor

•Micromitra (Paterina) minor var. gibba

•Obolus parrulus

•Obolella attantica comleyensis

•Hyolithus (Orthothecaj compressus

•Hyolithellus micans

•Helenia cancellata

•Leperditia (?) dermatoides (?)

•Leperditia (?) lenticularis.

•Escasona (?) spp. indet.

•Bradoria (?) sp. indet.

•Microdiscus annio

•Microdiscus attleborensis

•Micmacca (?) ellipsocephaloides

•Micmacca (?) ellipsocephaloides senior

•Micmacca (?) ellipsocephaloides spinosa

•Micmacca (?) ellipsocephaloides strenuelloides

•Micmacca (?) parvula

•Callavia callavei

•Callavia cf. callavei

•Callavia carlandi

Helcionelloida
  - Helcionellidae
"Ilsanella comleyensis n. sp." = Ilsanella oblonga, Latouchella costata n. gen. n. sp.
"Ilsanella comleyensis n. sp." = Ilsanella oblonga Cobbold 1921
Helcionella n. ssp. rugosa comleyensis
Latouchella costata n. gen. n. sp. Cobbold 1921
Stenothecoida
 Cambridioida - Cambridiidae
"Scenella elevata n. sp." = Stenothecoides elevata
"Scenella elevata n. sp." = Stenothecoides elevata Cobbold 1921