Pilton Shales Site E: Late Famennian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Pterineidae
cf. Ptychopteria (cf. Ptychopteria) cf. damnoniensis
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
cf. Fenestella cf. plebeia
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
cf. Centrorhynchus cf. letiensis
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
cf. Aulacella cf. interlineata (Sowerby 1840)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Spirifer" mesomalus
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Cyrtospiriferidae
Cyrtospirifer verneuili (Murchison 1840)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Mesoplica praelonga
Strophomenata - Productida - Araksalosiidae
cf. Hamlingella cf. goergesi (Paeckelmann 1931)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida
Chonetacea indet. Bronn 1862
Trilobita - Phacopida - Phacopidae
Phacops (Omegops) accipitrinus (Phillips 1841)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 51.1° North, 4.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:18.7° South, 1.4° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Devonian Epoch: Late Devonian
Stage: Famennian 10 m.y. bin: Devonian 5
Key time interval: Late Famennian Ammonoid zone:  Wocklumeria
Age range of interval: 365.3 - 358.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Pilton Shales Member:A
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: Thought to be uppermost Devonian (Wocklumeria). Pilton A1 or A2.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "shale"
Secondary lithology: "limestone"
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: "The shales, siltstones, thin sandstones and fossiliferous limestone lenses include thicker sandstones which commonly stand out as topographical features."
Environment:deltaic indet.
Glacial or sequence phase:transgressive
Geology comments: "Shallow seas..." Deltaic, nearshore (Whittaker & Leveridge 2011)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:38431
Authorizer:M. Foote Enterer:M. Foote
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2004-04-21 12:53:03 Last modified:2024-05-27 02:13:07
Access level:the public Released:2004-04-21 12:53:03
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
10303. E. A. Edmonds, A. Whittaker, and B. J. Williams. 1985. Geology of the country around Ilfracombe and Barnstaple (Memoirs of the British Geological Survey for 1:50000 sheets 277 and 293, new series) 1-97 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]