Wensleydale, Three Yard Limestone VII: Brigantian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Ammodiscidae
Ammodiscus incertus (d'Orbigny 1839)
Endothyridae
Orobias ornata
Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes septosus
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Aulophyllum fungites
Dibunophyllum bipartitum (McCoy 1849)
subsp. bipartitum
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lonsdaleiidae
Lonsdaleia floriformis
subsp. floriformis
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:Middle Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 3
Key time interval:Brigantian
Age range of interval:336.00000 - 326.40000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Middle Limestone Formation:Three Yard Limestone VII
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "limestone"
Lithology description: fine-grained limestones with some sandstone interbeds
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:73429
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:U. Merkel
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2007-06-15 03:47:43 Last modified:2007-06-15 06:47:43
Access level:the public Released:2007-06-15 03:47:42
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]