Costistricklandia community, Wych Beds, Malvern Hills District (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.1° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 33.6° S, 15.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Cycle V zone, Wych Beds Formation, Llandovery (443.4 - 433.4 Ma)

• "upper Lland. C5."

Environment/lithology: marine; green sandstone and shale

• "greenish fine grained ss and equal amt of sh, some small-scale x-bedding. BA4"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: A. M. Ziegler, L. R. M. Cocks, and R. K. Bambach. 1968. The composition and structure of Lower Silurian marine communities. Lethaia 1:1-27 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 464: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 15.12.1998

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• "Ziegler et al. 1968"
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unclassified
  -
Strophomenda indet.
Trilobita
 Phacopida - Acastidae
? Acaste sp.
? Acaste sp. Goldfuss 1843 trilobite
originally entered as "? Acaste sp."
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalopterus sp.
Euomphalopterus sp. Roemer 1876 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
? Loxonema sp.
? Loxonema sp. Phillips 1841 snail
originally entered as "? Loxonema sp."
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Protathyris sp.
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer sp.
Eospirifer sp. Schuchert 1913
 Orthida -
Orthida indet.
Orthida indet. Schuchert and Cooper 1932
? dolerorthid
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa sp.
Atrypa sp. Dalman 1828
 Rhynchonellida - Leptocoeliidae
Eocoelia sp.
Eocoelia sp. Nikiforova 1961
 Rhynchonellida - Rhynchonellidae
Rhynchonellidae indet.
Rhynchonellidae indet. Gray 1848
rhynchonellid - originally entered as "Rhynchonellida indet."
 Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda sp.
Clorinda sp. Barrande 1879
 Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Costistricklandia sp.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida -
Strophomenida indet.
Strophomenida indet. Opik 1934
stropheodontid
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena sp.
Leptaena sp. Dalman 1828
 Strophomenida - Strophodontidae
Pholidostrophia sp.
Pholidostrophia sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting bryozoan
Polychaeta
 Eunicemorpha -
Eunicemorpha indet.
Eunicemorpha indet.
scolecodont, ?microfossil
Pterobranchia
 Graptoloida -
Graptoloida indet.
Graptoloida indet. graptoloid
monograptid
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
crinoid
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
rugosan