Wensleydale, Hardrow Scar Limestone III Cyclothem (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: Hardrow Scar Limestone III Cyclothem Formation (Middle Limestone Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified shale and lithified sandstone

• shale and calcareous shale with thin limestone beds, and flaggy sandstones

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 73395: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Eomarginifera lobata
var. laqueata
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion decipiens McCoy 1849 horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae