Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 13.0° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Lower Bringewood Formation, Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Percent abundances are given, based on 123 collections.
Primary reference: J. D. Lawson. 1999. Atkins' Lower Bringewood associations of Wales and the Welsh Borderland. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 380-387 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 23149: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Graptolithina | |
Graptolithina indet. graptolite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni de Sowerby 1816 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Strophomenata | |
Strophoprion euglypha Dalman 1828 | |
Protochonetes minimus Sowerby 1839 | |
"Aegiria grayi" = Jonesea grayi
"Aegiria grayi" = Jonesea grayi Davidson 1849 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites myops trilobite | |
Ostracoda | |
Beyrichiidae indet. Jones 1894 ostracod |