Dinorthis flabellum community: Caradoc, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Trepostomata - Halloporidae
Hallopora sp. Bassler 1911
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Harknessellidae
Harknessella sp.
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Plaesiomyidae
Dinorthis sp. Hall and Clarke 1892
Lingulata - Lingulida - Obolidae
Palaeoglossa sp. Cockerell 1911
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Plectonotidae
Plectonotus sp. Clarke 1899
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Ambonychiidae
Ambonychia sp. Hall 1847
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 52.6° North, 2.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:50.5° South, 17.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Time
Period: Ordovician Epoch: Late Ordovician
10 m.y. bin: Ordovician 4-5
*Epoch:Early/Lower Caradoc
Key time interval: Caradoc
Age range of interval: 458.4 - 449.6 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: "basal Caradoc"
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: sandstone
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: "coarse sandy sediments. shallow water; 'coastal areas not far below the low tide level' (BA1-2?)"
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:"McKerrow, 1978. pp76-80, fig.10"
Metadata
Database number:434
Authorizer:J. Sepkoski Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:J. Ju Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:1998-12-08 13:31:33 Last modified:2017-01-06 17:12:51
Access level:the public Released:1998-12-08 13:31:33
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
60994. W. S. McKerrow. 1979. Ordovician and Silurian changes in sea level. Journal of the Geological Society 136:137-144 [M. Uhen/J. Ju/P. Wagner]