Bull Cove (Rame Head) (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.3° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 29.3° S, 4.5° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Dartmouth Beds Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• "Most probably Late Siegenian although Middle Siegenian cannot be ruled out."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lagoonal; poorly lithified, yellow sandstone

• "Friable, ochreous sandstone."

Preservation: cast

Collection methods: A 39 kg sample of the decalcified sandstone.

Primary reference: K. M. Evans. 1981. A marine fauna from the Dartmouth Beds (Lower Devonian) of Cornwall. Geological Magazine 118:517-523 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 3701: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.08.1999

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Taxonomic list

• Also present but not tabulated are very poorly preserved corals, bryozoans, crinoid ossicles, as well as ostracoderm fragments. Only brachiopods reported here.
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Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Rhipidiothyrididae
"Rhenorensselaria crassicosta" = Rhenorensselaeria
"Rhenorensselaria crassicosta" = Rhenorensselaeria
originally entered as "Rhenorensselaeria crassicosta"
 Spiriferida - Hysterolitidae
Hysterolites hystericus
 Spiriferida - Acrospiriferidae
Acrospirifer primaevus
 Orthida - Platyorthidae
Platyorthis circularis
 Orthida - Proschizophoriidae
Proschizophoria personata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
"Schizophoria provulvaria" = Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria) provulvaria
"Schizophoria provulvaria" = Schizophoria (Rhenoschizophoria) provulvaria Mauer 1886
 Rhynchonellida - Uncinulidae
Uncinulus sp.
Uncinulus sp. Bayle 1878
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Stropheodontidae
Stropheodontidae indet.
Stropheodontidae indet. Caster 1939
fragments