Pilton Shales Site H (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

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

• "Shallow seas..."
• "The shales, siltstones, thin sandstones and fossiliferous limestone lenses include thicker sandstones which commonly stand out as topographical features."

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
 Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops (Omegops) accipitrinus Phillips 1841 trilobite
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
 Productida - Productidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Rhynchonellida -
"Rhynchonellacea indet." = Rhynchonelloidea
"Rhynchonellacea indet." = Rhynchonelloidea d'Orbigny 1847
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Bivalvia
 Nuculanida - Malletiidae
Palaeoneilo sp. Hall and Whitfield 1869 clam
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Pseudaviculopecten sp. Newell 1938 scallop
 Cardiida -
? Cypricardella sp. Hall 1856 clam
 Cardiiformii -
"Modiomorphoida indet." = Modiomorphida
"Modiomorphoida indet." = Modiomorphida Newell 1969 clam
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda sp. Cuvier 1795 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalidae sp. White 1877 snail
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontoidea sp. M'Coy 1851 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
Loxonematidae sp. Koken 1889 snail
 Murchisoniina -
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
"Orthoceras" sp. Breynius 1832
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily