Woolhope (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 30.5° S, 13.8° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Woolhope Limestone Formation, Sheinwoodian (433.4 - 430.5 Ma)

• Listed as Wenlockian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, concretionary, gray, yellow, argillaceous limestone and poorly lithified, bentonitic, yellow shale

• Light olive to yellowish-gray, thin, nodular, argillaceous limestones and calcareous shales, yellowish orange to pale olive, with occasional bentonite interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: M. G. Bassett. 1977. The articulate Brachiopods from the Wenlock Series of the Welsh Borderland and South Wales, 4. Palaeontographical Society Monographs 130(547):123-176 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 169854: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 01.06.2015

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Taxonomic list

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Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sperion n. sp.
Leptaena sperion n. sp. Bassett 1977