Shelve District, Shropshire, Soudleyan, Whittery Shales, Locality 3: Soudleyan, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Craniata
- Craniida
- Craniidae
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Petrocrania dubia
Williams 1974
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1 individual | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Glyptorthidae
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Glyptorthis viriosa
Williams 1974
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2 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Orthidae
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Orthambonites exopunctata
Williams 1974
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12 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Whittardiidae
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Whittardia paradoxica
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8 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Hesperorthidae
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Dolerorthis cf. tenuicostata
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3 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Productorthidae
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Nicolella actoniae
(de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
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6 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Platystrophiidae
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Platystrophia caelata
Williams 1974
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2 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Plectorthidae
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Plectorthis whitteryensis
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7 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Harknessellidae
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Reuschella horderleyensis
Bancroft 1929
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6 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Onniella ostentata
Williams 1963
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9 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Linoporellidae
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Salopia sp.
Williams 1955
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2 individuals | ||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Protorthida
- Skenidiidae
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Skenidioides cf. costatus
Cooper 1956
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2 individuals | ||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Leptaena cf. ventricosa
Williams 1963
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1 individual | ||||||
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Rafinesquina sp.
Hall and Clarke 1892
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1 individual | ||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Furcitellidae
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Furcitella sp.
Cooper 1956
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1 individual | ||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Leptellinidae
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Palaeostrophomena sp.
Holtedahl 1916
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1 individual | ||||||
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Sowerbyellidae
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Sowerbyella cf. sericea
(Sowerby 1839)
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1 individual | ||||||
| recombined as Sowerbyella (Sowerbyella) sericea | |||||||
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Triplesiidae
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Caeroplecia plicata
Williams 1974
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14 individuals | ||||||
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Bicuspina subquadrata
Williams 1974
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17 individuals | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Shropshire |
| Coordinates: | 52.7° North, 2.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 52.6° South, 16.9° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Ordovician | Epoch: | Late/Upper Ordovician |
| Stage: | Sandbian | 10 m.y. bin: | Ordovician 4 |
| Key time interval: | Soudleyan | ||
| Age range of interval: | 458.40000 - 457.40000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Whittery Shales | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | formation | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Age taken from text, not an independent source. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | gray lithified mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | tuff |
| Lithology description: light olive-grey calcareous tuffs and mudstones. Whittery mudstones contain lithic and crystal fragments of volcanic debris up to 1 cm in size, mud balls and broken shells, which suggest that even those parts of the formation not obviously derived from volcanic ash falls may have been deposited by lahars. | |
| Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Brachiopods only. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 46892 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Patzkowsky | Enterer: | A. Krug |
| Modifier: | A. Krug | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2005-01-25 09:04:16 | Last modified: | 2005-01-25 11:04:16 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2005-01-25 09:04:14 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 11552. | A. Williams. 1974. Ordovician Brachiopoda from the Shelve District, Shropshire. Bulletin of the British Museum of Natural History (Geology), Supplement 11:1-158 [M. Patzkowsky/A. Krug/M. Uhen] |