Where: England, United Kingdom (54.3° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 5.5° S, 1.2° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Great Scar Limestone Formation (Lower Limestone Group), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)
• Lower Dibunophyllum Zone
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: D. Moore. 1958. The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 31(2):91-148 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 73389: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Diphyphyllum lateseptatum, Lithostrotion irregulare, Lithostrotion pauciradiale, Lithostrotion decipiens, Lithostrotion junceum
Diphyphyllum lateseptatum horn coral
Lithostrotion irregulare horn coral
Lithostrotion pauciradiale horn coral
Lithostrotion decipiens McCoy 1849 horn coral
Lithostrotion junceum Fabre 1955 horn coral | |
"Lithostrotion maccoyanum" = Petalaxis maccoyanus
"Lithostrotion maccoyanum" = Petalaxis maccoyanus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral |