Where: United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.5° W: paleocoordinates 23.8° S, 11.8° W)
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Downton Castle Sandstone Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)
• Upper Whitcliffe and Downton Castle Sandstone formations. PJW: if this is Pridoli, then it's Downton Castle Sandstone.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithology not reported
Size class: microfossils
Collection methods: Based on Calef and Hancock 1974 (ref. 6660). Abundance data are given, but only brachiopods are treated in detail. This is similar to PBDB coll. 523, but that collections are not identical.
Primary reference: C. G. Miller. 1995. Ostracode and conodont distribution across the Ludlow/Pridoli boundary (Silurian) of Wales and the welsh borderland. British Library Supplementary Publication 38(3):341-384 [E. Jarochowska/P. Nätscher]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 184291: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 14.02.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Calcaribeyrichia torosa ostracod |