A. reticularis-S. wilsoni-S. minor Assoc., Lower Bringewood, Welsh Borderland (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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; siltstone

• "There was evidently a higher degree of turbulence from the sedimentary evidence and this encouraged the increase of larger, thicker-shelled and more strongly ribbed brachiopods, often with pedicle attachment. This fauna suggests a BA 3-4 boundary region position." Interpreted as inner shelf.

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Percent abundances are given, based on 52 samples.

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 23152: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.07.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
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Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
solitary corals
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Dalmanitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella elegans Muir-Wood 1925
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni de Sowerby 1816
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
 Strophomenida - Amphistrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
 Strophomenida - Eopholidostrophiidae
 Strophomenida - Leptostrophiidae
"Leptostrophia filosa" = Mesoleptostrophia filosa
"Leptostrophia filosa" = Mesoleptostrophia filosa Sowerby 1839
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa Sowerby 1824
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831