Wensleydale, Hawes Limestone: Brigantian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Saccaminopsis fusulinaformis
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion irregulare
Lithostrotion pauciradiale
Lithostrotion decipiens (McCoy 1849)
Lithostrotion junceum Fabre 1955
Diphyphyllum lateseptatum
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lonsdaleiidae
Lonsdaleia floriformis
subsp. floriformis
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Petalaxidae
Lithostrotion maccoyanum (Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
recombined as Petalaxis maccoyanus
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum bipartitum (McCoy 1849)
subsp. bipartitum
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes septosus
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Elythidae
Phricodothyris ericius
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer striatus (Martin 1809)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Choristitidae
Spirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
recombined as Angiospirifer bisulcatus
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita cf. ambigua
Rhynchonellata - Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma cf. virgoides (M'Coy 1844)
Dielasma hastatum (Sowerby 1824)
synonym of Dielasma virgoides
Strophomenata - Productida - Aulostegidae
Sinuatella sinuata (de Koninck 1851)
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Krotovia aculeata (Sowerby 1814)
Eomarginifera triquetra
Strophomenata - Productida - Monticuliferidae
Gigantoproductus dentifer
Strophomenata - Productida - Echinoconchidae
Echinoconchus elegans (Norwood and Pratten 1855)
Echinoconchus punctatus (Martin 1809)
Archaediscidae
Archaediscus karreri
Endothyridae
Orobias ornata
Orobias ammonoides
Endothyra bowmani Phillips 1846
Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis decurrens
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 54.3° North, 2.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:3.5° South, 3.4° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
Key time interval:Brigantian
Age range of interval:336.30000 - 330.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Middle Limestone Formation:Hawes Limestone I
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: includes the Girvanella Band in the middle of the Formation
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:73390
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-14 01:43:31 Last modified:2007-06-14 04:43:31
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-14 01:43:31
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

24641.1% 20080D. Moore. 1958. The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 31(2):91-148 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]