Deer Park Road Section #7 (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 12.3° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Overton Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• Lower Whitcliffe Beds. Not sure if section really is numbered bottom to top...

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal siltstone

• interbedded highly bioturbated calcareous siltstones in which most lamination destroyed by bioturbation. alternates with thin 'storm generated' siltstone and shell laminae. minor scour channels and slumping. occassional symmetric and asymmetric ripple laminae.

Primary reference: D. D. J. Antia. 1981. Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England. Geological Journal 16:137-147 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8316: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 05.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

• 18047 total specimens FOR ALL 7 entries in this section.
unclassified
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Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina lunata Sowerby 1839
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Ceramopora sp. Hall 1851
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Kionoceratidae
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
 Orthoceratoidea - Paraphragmitidae
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Fuchsella amygdalina Sowerby 1827 clam
 Nuculanida - Cucullellidae
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Beyrichia sp. M'Coy 1846 ostracod
 Palaeocopida -
 Platycopida - Cavellinidae
 Podocopida - Healdiidae