Wensleydale, Three Yard Limestone VII (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: Three Yard Limestone VII Formation (Middle Limestone Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• fine-grained limestones with some sandstone interbeds

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 73429: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus incertus d'Orbigny 1839
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lonsdaleiidae
Lonsdaleia floriformis horn coral
subsp. floriformis
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum bipartitum McCoy 1849 horn coral
subsp. bipartitum