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: Middle Limestone Va Cyclothem Formation (Middle Limestone Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified shale and lithified sandstone
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 73423: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.06.2007
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Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Aulophyllum fungites horn coral | |
"Triplophyllites curvilinea" = Amplexizaphrentis
"Triplophyllites curvilinea" = Amplexizaphrentis horn coral | |
cf. Amplexus coralloides Sowerby 1814 horn coral | |
Cyathaxonia cornu Michelin 1846 horn coral | |
Lithostrotion junceum Fabre 1955 horn coral | |
Trilobita | |
Weberides mucronatus McCoy 1844 trilobite | |
Strophomenata | |
Semenewia concentrica de Koninck 1847 | |
Overtonia fimbriata Sowerby 1824 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825 | |
Rhipidomella michelini L'Eveille 1835 | |
"Actinoconchus lamellosus" = Athyris lamellosa
"Actinoconchus lamellosus" = Athyris lamellosa Léveillé 1835 | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculopsis gibbosa nut clam | |
Pteronites cf. latus, "Leiopteria thomsoni" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
Pteronites cf. latus oyster
"Leiopteria thomsoni" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
"Straparollus cf. catillus" = Euomphalus catillus
"Straparollus cf. catillus" = Euomphalus catillus Martin 1793 snail | |
"Zygopleura rugifera" = Nodozyga rugifera
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Euphemites urei Fleming 1828 snail | |
"Bucanopsis undatus" = Retispira undata
"Bucanopsis undatus" = Retispira undata Etheridge 1876 snail | |
Borestus cf. wrighti Thomas 1940 snail | |
"Zygopleura cf. roscobiensis" = Palaeozyga roscobiensis
"Zygopleura cf. roscobiensis" = Palaeozyga roscobiensis Longstaff 1933 snail |