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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, sandy limestone

• almost unfossiliferous sandy 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 73397: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyra bowmani Phillips 1846
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion decipiens McCoy 1849 horn coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae