Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 2.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lynton Slates Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)
• "probable late Emsian age"
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty slate and gray sandstone
Primary reference: E. A. Edmonds, A. Whittaker, and B. J. Williams. 1985. Geology of the country around Ilfracombe and Barnstaple (Memoirs of the British Geological Survey for 1:50000 sheets 277 and 293, new series) 1-97 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38388: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
"Myophoria" sp. Bronn 1834 clam | |
? Mytilarca sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
"Nuculana" sp. Link 1807 pointed nut clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea King 1846 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |