Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.7° S, 1.4° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Wocklumeria ammonoid zone, A1 Member (Pilton Shales Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Thought to be uppermost Devonian (Wocklumeria). Pilton A1.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; shale and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
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 38428: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Ophiuroidea | |
? Drepanaster sp. Whidborne 1898 brittle star | |
Trilobita | |
cf. Phacops (cf. Omegops) cf. accipitrinus Phillips 1841 trilobite | |
Bivalvia | |
"Pectinacea indet." = Pectinoidea
"Pectinacea indet." = Pectinoidea Rafinesque 1815 scallop | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea King 1846 | |
Aulacella interlineata Sowerby 1840 | |
"Rhynchonellacea indet." = Rhynchonelloidea
"Rhynchonellacea indet." = Rhynchonelloidea d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Anthozoa | |
Pleurodictyum sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral |