Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 19.0° S, 1.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Baggy Sandstones Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Thought to be uppermost Devonian (Wocklumeria).
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; siltstone and shale
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 38425: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
"Bellerophontacea indet." = Bellerophontoidea
"Bellerophontacea indet." = Bellerophontoidea M'Coy 1851 horn snail | |
Bivalvia | |
? Nuculoidea sp. Williams and Berger 1916 nut clam | |
? Palaeoneilo ? lirata Phillips 1841 clam | |
""Cucullaea" unilateralis" = Dolabra unilateralis
""Cucullaea" unilateralis" = Dolabra unilateralis Sowerby 1840 clam | |
Paracyclas sp. Hall 1843 clam | |
"? Prothyris ? contorta" = Prothyris contorta, "Sanguinolites mimus" = Prothyris contorta
"? Prothyris ? contorta" = Prothyris contorta Whidborne 1896 clam
"Sanguinolites mimus" = Prothyris contorta Whidborne 1896 clam | |
? Goniophora sp. Phillips 1848 clam | |
Ptychopteria damnoniensis oyster | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |