Ludlow-Much Wenlock District #1: Ludfordian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Microsphaeridorhynchia nucula
7.41 %-specimens
Ostracoda - Podocopida - Healdiidae
Cytherellina siliqua
0.05 %-specimens
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes ludloviensis Muir-Wood 1962
72.78 %-specimens
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina lunata (Sowerby 1839)
17.34 %-specimens
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea rugata
0.01 %-specimens
Craniata - Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Craniops implicatus
2.63 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Grammysiidae
Fuchsella amygdalina (Sowerby 1827)
0.22 %-specimens
Bivalvia - Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Goniophora cymbaeformis (Sowerby 1839)
0.37 %-specimens
recombined as Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 52.5° North, 2.6° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.7° South, 12.3° West
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Ludlow
Stage:Ludfordian 10 m.y. bin:Silurian 2
*Period:Late/Upper Silurian *Epoch:Late/Upper Ludlovian
*International age/stage:Late/Upper Ludfordian
Key time interval:Ludfordian
Age range of interval:425.60000 - 423.00000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Overton
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:current ripples,wave ripples,bioturbation,shelly/skeletal lithified siltstone
Lithology description: interbedded highly bioturbated calcareous siltstones in which most lamination destroyed by bioturbation. alternates with thin 'storm generated' siltstone and shell laminae. minor scour channels and slumping. occassional symmetric and asymmetric ripple laminae.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:5879 specimens.
Metadata
Database number:8295
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:M. Sommers Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-07-05 13:44:34 Last modified:2000-07-05 19:09:31
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

570. D. D. J. Antia. 1981. Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England. Geological Journal 16:137-147 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]