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 A.
• 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 38437: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata | |
cf. Fenestella cf. polyporata Phillips 1836 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea King 1846 | |
? Cleiothyridina sp. Buckman 1906 | |
"Rhynchonellacea indet." = Rhynchonelloidea
"Rhynchonellacea indet." = Rhynchonelloidea d'Orbigny 1847 | |
Strophomenata | |
"? Productacea indet." = Productoidea
"? Productacea indet." = Productoidea Gray 1840 | |
Bivalvia | |
cf. Streblopteria piltonensis scallop | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda cf. indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Trilobita | |
Phacopidae indet. Hawle and Corda 1847 trilobite |