Kjaerina typa association, South Salop, England: Soudleyan - Marshbrookian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Cuneamya sp. Hall and Whitfield 1875
Bivalvia - Nuculida - Praenuculidae
Similodonta sp. Soot-Ryen 1964
Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites sp. von Schlotheim 1820
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Sowerbyellidae
Sowerbyella sp. Jones 1928
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Kjaerina typa Bancroft 1929
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Hesperorthidae
Dolerorthis sp. Schuchert and Cooper 1931
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Dalmanella sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Craniata - Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Paracraniops sp. Williams 1963
Ostracoda - Hollinocopida - Tetradellidae
Tallinnella sp. Opik 1937
Trilobita - Trinucleida - Trinucleidae
Broeggerolithus sp. Lamont 1935
Trilobita - Phacopida - Homalonotidae
Brongniartella sp. Reed 1918
Trilobita - Phacopida - Calymenidae
Flexicalymene sp. Shirley 1936
Trilobita - Phacopida - Pterygometopidae
Chasmops sp. M'Coy 1849
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 3.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:51.0° South, 17.7° West
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Ordovician Epoch:Late/Upper Ordovician
10 m.y. bin:Ordovician 4
*Period:Late/Upper Ordovician *Epoch:Middle Caradoc
*International age/stage:Soudleyan - Marshbrookian
Key time interval:Soudleyan - Marshbrookian
Age range of interval:457.50000 - 452.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: Facies analysis of several formations in Type Caradoc
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,grading,burrows lithified silty sandstone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: Medium to fine-grained silty sandstone with parallel lamination, low angle cross-lamination and occasional ripple laminations, and bioturbation
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:3653
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:P. Novack-Gottshall
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1999-08-06 08:15:34 Last modified:1999-08-06 11:15:34
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

166. J. M. Hurst. 1979. Evolution, succession & replacement in the type Caradoc (Ordovician) benthic faunas of England. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 27:189-246 [A. Miller/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Wagner]