Wensleydale, Simonstone Limestone IV: Brigantian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Ammodiscidae
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Ammodiscus incertus
(d'Orbigny 1839)
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Tetrataxidae
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Tetrataxis decurrens
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Endothyridae
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Endothyra bowmani
Phillips 1846
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Orobias ornata
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Archaediscidae
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Archaediscus karreri
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Rhynchonellata
- Rhynchonellida
- Camarotoechiidae
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Camarotoechia pleurodon
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Elythidae
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Phricodothyris paricosta
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Choristitidae
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Spirifer bisulcatus
Sowerby 1825
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Spiriferidae
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Spirifer duplicicostus
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Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Composita cf. ambigua
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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Avonia youngiana
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Eomarginifera praecursor
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productidae
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Dictyoclostus sulcatus
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Echinoconchidae
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Etheridgina complectens
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Petalaxidae
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Lithostrotion cf. maccoyanum
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
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| recombined as Petalaxis maccoyanus | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Lithostrotionidae
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Lithostrotion pauciradiale
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Lithostrotion decipiens
(McCoy 1849)
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Lithostrotion junceum
Fabre 1955
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Orionastraea indivisa
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Orionastraea prerete
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Diphyphyllum furcatum
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Lonsdaleiidae
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Lonsdaleia floriformis
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| subsp. crassiconus | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Aulophyllidae
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Corwenia rugosa
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Aulophyllum fungites
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Palaeosmiliidae
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Koninckophyllum interruptum
Thomson and Nicholson 1876
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Palaeosmilia regia
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Syringoporidae
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Syringopora sp.
Goldfuss 1826
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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: | Simonstone Limestone IV | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Orionastraea beds | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: fine-grained limestones overlain by coarsely crinoidal limestones, sandy limestones and calcareous shales, at the top fine-grained algal limestones | |
| 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: | 73399 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-06-14 06:32:01 | Last modified: | 2007-06-14 09:32:01 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2007-06-14 06:32:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 24641. | 1% 20080 | D. 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] |