Pilton Shales Site M (Devonian to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° S, 1.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pilton Shales Formation, Late/Upper Famennian to Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 346.7 Ma)

• Probably Pilton A.

• 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."

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

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 38439: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862
 Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
 Spiriferida -
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea
"Spiriferacea indet." = Spiriferoidea King 1846
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"cf. Centrorhynchus cf. letiensis" = Sartenaerus
"cf. Centrorhynchus cf. letiensis" = Sartenaerus
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Bivalvia
 Modiomorphida - Cypricardiniidae
Cypricardinia sp. Hall 1860 clam
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily