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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Euphemites urei Fleming 1828 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Edmondia accipiens clam
Edmondia arcuata clam | |
"Protoschizodus cf. subaequalis" = Schizodus
"Protoschizodus cf. subaequalis" = Schizodus clam | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Dielasma hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides
"Dielasma hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides M'Coy 1844 | |
Strophomenata | |
Dictyoclostus cf. semireticulatus Martin 1809 | |
Echinoconchus cf. elegans Norwood and Pratten 1855 | |