Barnstaple, Pilton Beds A3 (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.1° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 18.7° S, 1.4° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Wocklumeria ammonoid zone, A3 Member (Pilton Formation), Late/Upper Famennian (364.7 - 360.7 Ma)

• A3 beds, Wocklumeria zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified shale and lithified limestone

• deltaic, nearshore. (Whittaker & Leveridge 2011); carbonate lenses should be shallow subtidal.
• shales with limestone bands

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. Goldring. 1957. The last toothed Productellinae in Europe (Brachiopoda, Upper Devonian). Palaeontologische Zeitschrift 31:207-228 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 77885: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 22.01.2008

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