Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 26.4° S, 12.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Whitcliffe Beds Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)
• "Ludlow Series, Whitcliffe Beds"
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Watkins. 1979. Benthic community organization in the Ludlow Series of the Welsh Borderland. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology) 31:175-280 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Hearn/J. Ju]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 478: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 15.12.1998, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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•Original list replaced by Watkins 1979's Table 20.
•Crinoidea - Crinoidea indet.
•Strophomenata Strophomenida - Shaleriidae Shaleria sp.
•Productida - Strophochonetidae Protochonetes sp.
•Rhynchonellata Athyridida - Dayiidae Dayia sp.
•Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae Camarotoechia sp.
•Spiriferida - Delthyrididae Howellella sp.
•Orthida - Draboviidae Salopina sp.
•Orthida - Dalmanellidae Isorthis sp.
•Lingulata Lingulida - Discinidae Orbiculoidea sp.
•Lingulida - Lingulidae Lingula sp.
•Polychaeta Serpulimorpha - Serpulites sp.
•Gastropoda Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae Bucanopsis sp.
•Euomphalina - Platyceratidae Cyclonema sp.
•Prosobranchia - ? Archaeogastropoda indet.
•Tentaculita Cornulitida - Cornulitidae Cornulites sp.
•Cephalopoda Nautiloidea - Nautiloidea indet.
•Bivalvia Carditida - Cardiniidae Cypricardinia sp.
•Cardiidia - Grammysiidae Sedgwickia sp.
•Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae Goniophora sp.
•Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae Modiolopsis sp.
•Cardiidia - "Pholadomyoida indet." = Pholadomyida
•Ostreida - Pterineidae Pteronitella sp.
•Ostreida - Pterineidae Ptychopteria sp.
•Protobranchia - Malletiidae Nuculites sp.
•Stenolaemata Trepostomata - ? Trepostomata indet.
| Stenolaemata | |
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? Trepostomata indet. Ulrich 1882 3 species, ramose bryozoans - originally entered as "? Trepostomata sp."
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| Craniata | |
| Lingulata | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839 | |
""Camarotoechia" nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula
""Camarotoechia" nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula Sowerby 1839 | |
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Salopina lunata Sowerby 1839 | |
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Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Lepidoleptaena sp. Havlicek 1963 | |
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Protochonetes ludloviensis Muir-Wood 1962 | |
| Cephalopoda | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Bembexia lloydii" = Ulrichospira lloydii
"Bembexia lloydii" = Ulrichospira lloydii de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail | |
"Platyceratacea "sp. A"" = Platyceratoidea, "Platyceratacea "sp. B"" = Platyceratoidea
"Platyceratacea "sp. A"" = Platyceratoidea Hall 1859 snail
"Platyceratacea "sp. B"" = Platyceratoidea Hall 1859 snail | |
"Bucanopsis expansus" = Phragmosphaera expansus
"Bucanopsis expansus" = Phragmosphaera expansus de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Nuculites antiqua clam | |
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Pteronitella retroflexa oyster
Ptychopteria tenuistriata oyster | |
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Dualina striata clam | |
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Grammysioidea sp. Williams 1916 clam | |
"Goniophora cymbaeformis" = Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis
"Goniophora cymbaeformis" = Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis Sowerby 1839 clam | |
| Trilobita | |
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Encrinurus stubblefieldi trilobite | |