Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 19.1° S, 1.3° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pilton Shales Formation, Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)
• Thought to be uppermost Devonian (Wocklumeria). Pilton A3.
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shale and limestone
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 38434: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Trilobita | |
Phacops (Omegops) accipitrinus Phillips 1841 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
cf. Athyris cf. concentrica von Buch 1834 | |
"Rhynchonellacea indet." = Rhynchonelloidea
"Rhynchonellacea indet." = Rhynchonelloidea d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam | |
Pseudaviculopecten sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
? Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam | |
"Modiomorphoida indet." = Modiomorphida
"Modiomorphoida indet." = Modiomorphida Newell 1969 clam | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda sp. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Euomphalidae sp. White 1877 snail | |
Bellerophontoidea sp. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
Loxonematidae sp. Koken 1889 snail | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Orthoceras" sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |