Wensleydale, Simonstone Limestone IVb (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 IVb 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

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 73416: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
Euphemites urei Fleming 1828 snail
Bivalvia
 Pholadomyida - Edmondiidae
 Trigoniida - Schizodidae
"Protoschizodus cf. subaequalis" = Schizodus
"Protoschizodus cf. subaequalis" = Schizodus clam
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Dielasma hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides
"Dielasma hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides M'Coy 1844
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus cf. elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855
 Productida - Monticuliferidae