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; bioturbated, shelly/skeletal, calcareous siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Percent abundances are given, based on 24 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 23156: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 10.07.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites myops trilobite | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni de Sowerby 1816 | |
Strophomenata | |
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa Sowerby 1824 | |
Strophoprion euglypha Dalman 1828 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Anthozoa | |
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Phaulactis sp. Ryder 1926 horn coral |