Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire, Tortworth Beds: Telychian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Tentaculita - Cornulitida - Cornulitidae
Cornulites serpularius
Craniata - Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Craniops implicata
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Stricklandiidae
Costistricklandia lirata Sowerby 1839
Rhynchonellata - Pentamerida - Clorindidae
Clorinda globosa
Rhynchonellata - Atrypida - Atrypidae
Atrypa reticularis (Linnaeus 1758)
original and current combination Anomia reticularis
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Meristina furcata
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Eopholidostrophiidae
Pholidostrophia salopiensis Cocks 1967
recombined as Mesopholidostrophia salopiensis
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Chilidiopsidae
Coolinia applanata (Salter 1846)
Coolinia pecten (Linnaeus 1758)
Tentaculitida - Tentaculitidae
Tentaculites cf. minutus
Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Palaeocyclidae
Rhabdocyclus spp.
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Gloucestershire
Coordinates: 51.9° North, 2.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:32.7° South, 14.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Llandovery
Stage:Telychian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 1
Key time interval:Telychian
Age range of interval:438.50000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Tortworth Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:micaceous,gray,red sandstone
Secondary lithology: "shale"
Lithology description: 200 ft of fine-grained sandstones and shales. The sandstones are often micaceous and flaggy, and are generally intensely hard; their colour ranges from grey, yellowish-grey and greenish-grey to red and purple. The shales are easily weathered and rarely seen at the surface.
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: BA 4 - taken from Cocks et al 2003.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:The list is for the Tortworth Beds of the Tortworh Inlier...it is the combination of several localities around this area.
Metadata
Database number:49639
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:A. Krug
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-21 08:33:32 Last modified:2018-12-12 10:29:56
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-21 08:33:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
13293. M.L.K. Curtis. 1972. The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 83(1):1-35 [M. Patzkowsky/A. Krug/A. Krug]