Wensleydale, Simonstone Limestone IV (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: Simonstone Limestone IV Formation (Middle Limestone Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Orionastraea beds

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• fine-grained limestones overlain by coarsely crinoidal limestones, sandy limestones and calcareous shales, at the top fine-grained algal limestones

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 73399: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 14.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus incertus
Ammodiscus incertus d'Orbigny 1839
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis decurrens
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Endothyra bowmani, Orobias ornata
Endothyra bowmani Phillips 1846
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
Archaediscus karreri
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia pleurodon
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Phricodothyris paricosta
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer duplicicostus
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita cf. ambigua
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Avonia youngiana, Eomarginifera praecursor
 Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus sulcatus
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Etheridgina complectens
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Petalaxidae
"Lithostrotion cf. maccoyanum" = Petalaxis maccoyanus
"Lithostrotion cf. maccoyanum" = Petalaxis maccoyanus Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion pauciradiale, Lithostrotion decipiens, Lithostrotion junceum, Orionastraea indivisa, Orionastraea prerete, Diphyphyllum furcatum
Lithostrotion decipiens McCoy 1849 horn coral
Lithostrotion junceum Fabre 1955 horn coral
 Stauriida - Lonsdaleiidae
Lonsdaleia floriformis
Lonsdaleia floriformis horn coral
subsp. crassiconus
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Corwenia rugosa, Aulophyllum fungites
Corwenia rugosa horn coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Koninckophyllum interruptum, Palaeosmilia regia
Koninckophyllum interruptum Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
Palaeosmilia regia horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral