Woolhope Limestone at May Hill inlier (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 29.4° S, 12.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Woolhope Limestone Formation, Wenlock (433.4 - 427.4 Ma)

• Listed as Wenlockian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, concretionary, gray, yellow, argillaceous limestone and poorly lithified, bentonitic, yellow shale

• Light olive to yellowish-gray, thin, nodular, argillaceous limestones and calcareous shales, yellowish orange to pale olive, with occasional bentonite interbeds

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: J. D. Lawson. 1955. The geology of the May Hill Inlier. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 111:85-116 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74666: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 23.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Cyrtiidae
Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
"Parmorthis elegantula" = Resserella
"Parmorthis elegantula" = Resserella
 Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818
 Strophomenida - Strophonellidae
"Strophonella euglypha" = Strophoprion euglypha
"Strophonella euglypha" = Strophoprion euglypha Dalman 1828
 Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
"Plectodonta transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Plectodonta transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818
Anthozoa
  -
Anthozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1834
Solitary corals
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral