Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni association, Drom Point Fm. (Silurian of Ireland)
Where: Ireland (52.1° N, 10.3° W: paleocoordinates 29.6° S, 18.8° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Drom Point Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• "younger than Holcospirifer bigugosus assoc."
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; siltstone
• "sltst w/fine ss w/shell lenses, laminated beds (tempestites) ripples, bioturbation. shallow shelf, nearshore, BA2"
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: R. Watkins. 1977. Silurian marine community west of Dingle, Ireland. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 23:79-118 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 501: authorized by Jack Sepkoski, entered by Mike Sommers on 17.12.1998, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
• "Watkins, 1977"
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily est. 1200 crinoid ossicles in 6.9:3.4 ratio of crinoid debris to other fossils
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Trilobita | |
Dalmanites sp. Barrande 1852 trilobite | |
Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite | |
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Lophophorata | |
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820 | |
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893 | |
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni de Sowerby 1816 | |
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Dalejina sp. Havlicek 1953 | |
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protochonetes ludloviensis Muir-Wood 1962 | |
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa Sowerby 1824 | |
"Leptostrophia filosa" = Mesoleptostrophia filosa
"Leptostrophia filosa" = Mesoleptostrophia filosa Sowerby 1839 | |
Bryozoa | |
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Stenolaemata | |
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Gastropoda | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
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Oriostoma sp. Munier-Chalmas 1876 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Modiomorphoida indet." = Modiomorphida
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Pteronitella retroflexa oyster | |
"Nuculoida indet." = Nuculida
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Cephalopoda | |
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Anthozoa | |
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