Wensleydale, Hawes Limestone (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.3° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 3.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hawes Limestone I Formation (Middle Limestone Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• includes the Girvanella Band in the middle of the Formation

• 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 73390: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion decipiens McCoy 1849 horn coral
Lithostrotion junceum Fabre 1955 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lonsdaleiidae
Lonsdaleia floriformis horn coral
subsp. floriformis
 Stauriida - Petalaxidae
"Lithostrotion maccoyanum" = Petalaxis maccoyanus
"Lithostrotion maccoyanum" = Petalaxis maccoyanus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum bipartitum McCoy 1849 horn coral
subsp. bipartitum
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer striatus Martin 1809
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Dielasma cf. virgoides" = Dielasma virgoides, "Dielasma hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides
"Dielasma cf. virgoides" = Dielasma virgoides M'Coy 1844
"Dielasma hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides M'Coy 1844
Strophomenata
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Sinuatella sinuata de Koninck 1851
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855
Foraminifera
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae