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: Gayle Shale Formation (Middle Limestone Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified, calcareous shale and 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 73391: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2007
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
Overtonia fimbriata Sowerby 1824 | |
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Actinoconchus lamellosus" = Athyris lamellosa, Actinoconchus planosulcatus, Composita cf. ambigua, Cleiothyridina roissyi
"Actinoconchus lamellosus" = Athyris lamellosa Léveillé 1835
Actinoconchus planosulcatus Phillips 1836 | |
Rhipidomella michelini L'Eveille 1835 | |
Gastropoda | |
Euphemites urei Fleming 1828 snail | |
Glabrocingulum cf. atomarium Phillips 1836 snail | |
"Zygopleura rugifera" = Nodozyga rugifera
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Rostroconchia | |
Conocardium inflatum M'Coy 1844 | |
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten cf. murchisoni scallop
Aviculopecten cf. tabulatus scallop | |
Limatulina scotica scallop | |
Actinopteria persulcata oyster | |
Pinna flabelliformis oyster | |
Edmondia sulcata clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Clisiophyllum keyserlingi McCoy 1849 horn coral
Aulophyllum fungites horn coral | |
Koninckophyllum magnificum Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral | |
Rotiphyllum charlestonense horn coral
Rotiphyllum granulate horn coral
Fasciculophyllum thomsoni horn coral | |
Diphyphyllum lateseptatum horn coral
Lithostrotion pauciradiale horn coral
Lithostrotion junceum Fabre 1955 horn coral | |
"Lithostrotion cf. proliferum" = Acrocyathus proliferus
"Lithostrotion cf. proliferum" = Acrocyathus proliferus Hall in Hall and Whitney 1858 horn coral | |
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Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841 tabulate coral | |
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes septosus demosponge | |
Foraminifera | |
Endothyra bowmani Phillips 1846 |