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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
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Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral | |
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Parmorthis elegantula" = Resserella
"Parmorthis elegantula" = Resserella | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Strophomenata | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
"Strophonella euglypha" = Strophoprion euglypha
"Strophonella euglypha" = Strophoprion euglypha Dalman 1828 | |
"Plectodonta transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis
"Plectodonta transversalis" = Eoplectodonta (Eoplectodonta) transversalis Wahlenberg 1818 |