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