Wensleydale, Hardrow Scar Limestone IIIa (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 IIIa Formation (Middle Limestone Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone and lithified, sandy limestone

• fine-grained limestone with rare crinoid remains, sandy limestone patches, and a belt of calcite mudstone

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 73396: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
 Stauriida - Lonsdaleiidae
Lonsdaleia floriformis horn coral
subsp. crassiconus
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae