Sample Nr. 493 (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (55.1° N, 2.4° W: paleocoordinates 18.2° S, 17.3° W)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Ozarkodina bohemica longa conodont zone, Upper Quarried Limestone Member (Much Wenlock Limestone Formation), Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• ... provides an extensive lateral exposure of the upper part of the Coalbrookdale Formation and of most of the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation (Lower Quarried Limestone and Nodular Beds members). Lithology and sequence stratigraphy have been previously documented by Ray et al. (2013).

Environment/lithology: lithified limestone and lithified, silty mudstone

• Retrogradational parasequence

•Limestone and silty mudstone beds of similar thickness

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: E. Jarochowska, D. C. Ray, P. Röstel, G. Worton, and A. Munnecke. 2017. Harnessing stratigraphic bias at the section scale: conodont diversity in the Homerian (Silurian) of the midland platform, England. Palaeontology 61(1):57-76 [E. Jarochowska/S. Haegele/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 193343: authorized by Emilia Jarochowska, entered by Sarah Haegele on 12.05.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Conodonta
 Prioniodontida -
Pseudooneotodus beckmanni Bischoff and Sannemann 1958 conodont
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina bohemica Walliser 1964 conodont
 Ozarkodinida - Spathognathodontodae
Wurmiella excavata Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont