Wensleydale, Simonstone Limestone IVc: Brigantian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Archaediscidae
Archaediscus karreri
Endothyridae
Endothyra bowmani Phillips 1846
Orobias ornata
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:Simonstone Limestone IVc
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lithified sandy "limestone"
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Size of fossils:microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Metadata
Database number:73418
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Modifier:U. Merkel Research group:micropaleontology
Created:2007-06-15 00:27:29 Last modified:2007-06-15 03:31:40
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-15 00:27:29
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]