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, A Member (Pilton Shales Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Thought to be uppermost Devonian (Wocklumeria). Pilton A1 or A2.
• formation-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 38431: 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 | |
Bivalvia | |
Stenolaemata | |
Strophomenata | |
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
cf. Hamlingella cf. goergesi Paeckelmann 1931 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"cf. Centrorhynchus cf. letiensis" = Sartenaerus
"cf. Centrorhynchus cf. letiensis" = Sartenaerus | |
Cyrtospirifer verneuili Murchison 1840 | |
cf. Aulacella cf. interlineata Sowerby 1840 | |
Trilobita | |
Phacops (Omegops) accipitrinus Phillips 1841 trilobite | |
unclassified | |
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866 |