Targrove Quarry: Lochkovian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Salopella marcensis n. sp. fertile axis
Fanning et al. 1992 37 specimens
Tortilicaulis transwalliensis fertile axis
Fanning et al. 1992 23 specimens
Uskiella reticulata n. sp. fertile axis
Fanning et al. 1992 18 specimens
cf. Uskiella reticulata fertile axis
Fanning et al. 1992 7 specimens
Tarrantia salopensis n. gen., n. sp. fertile axis
Fanning et al. 1992 27 specimens
Rhyniophytina indet. non-seed repro
Edwards and Fanning 1985
NUMEROUS rhyniophyte sporangia (about 50% of all found) are unnamed.
Nematasketum diversiforme
Burgess and Edwards 1988
identified as Prototaxites by Lang as well as Edwards & Fanning, 1985.
Salopella sp. fertile axis
Edwards and Fanning 1985
Traquaraspis symondsi
Fanning et al. 1992
fish found in nearby stream section
Parka decipiens Fleming 1857
Zosterophyllum cf. fertile fertile axis
cf. Yarravia sp. fertile axis Lang and Cookson 1935
Edwards and Fanning 1985
Psilophytopsida - Psilophytales
Cooksonia cambrensis fertile axis
Edwards and Fanning 1985 10 specimens
Cooksonia cf. caledonica fertile axis
Edwards and Fanning 1985 68 specimens
some may belong to Renalia sp.
Cooksonia hemisphaerica n. sp. fertile axis Lang 1937
also reported in Edwards & Fanning 1985 and Fanning et al. 1992.
Cooksonia pertoni fertile axis Lang 1937
Edwards and Fanning 1985 70+ specimens
see also Fanning et al 1988.
unclassified
Hostinella sp. sterile axis Barrande 1882
Edwards and Fanning 1985
Nematothallus pseudovasculosa Lang 1937
Eurypterida
Eurypterida indet. Burmeister 1843
Edwards and Fanning 1985
eurypterid cuticle
Pteraspidomorpha - Pteraspidiformes
Pteraspis rostrata (Agassiz 1835)
Fanning et al. 1992
var. trimpleyensis (fish)
    = Pteraspis rostrata Agassiz 1835
Blieck 1984
original and current combination Cephalaspis rostratus
Demospongiae - Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Pachytheca cf. sphaerica Hooker 1861
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Ludlow
Coordinates: 52.0° North, 2.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:25.5° South, 8.0° West
Basis of coordinate:estimated from map
Altitude:81 meters
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Devonian Epoch:Early/Lower Devonian
Stage:Lochkovian 10 m.y. bin:Devonian 1
*Period:Early/Lower Devonian - Middle Devonian
*International age/stage:Early/Lower Lochkovian - Middle Lochkovian *Local age/stage:Early/Lower Gedinnian - Middle Gedinnian
Key time interval:Lochkovian Zone: micrornatus-newportensis spore biozone
Age range of interval:419.20000 - 410.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Lower Ditton
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 60 m above the main Psammosteus limestone horizon.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:green sandstone
Secondary lithology: sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: At certain horizons near the top of fining-upwards sequences, bedding planes of buff to green, micaceous , fine-grained sandstones are covered with fragmentary plant remains. Larger axes of Prototaxites/Nematasketum occur in the coarser, massive sandstones.
Environment:fluvial indet.
Geology comments: sediments are typical of distal alluvial facies of the Old Red Sandstone (Edwards & Fanning, 1985)
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression,permineralized,coalified,original carbon,original sporopollenin,replaced with pyrite
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Spatial orientation:random
Preservation of anatomical detail:variable
Disassociated minor elements:many
Fragmentation:frequent
Temporal resolution:snapshot
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:chemical,mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Lang, 1937 only described Cooksonia; D. Edwards recollected later, but does not indicate how many times. All names except C. hemisphaerica, Parka, and Nematothallus were from the later Edwards' collection(s).
Taxonomic list comments:Taken from multiple sources.
Metadata
Database number:10679
Authorizer:P. Gensel, P. Novack-Gottshall Enterer:M. Kotyk, P. Novack-Gottshall
Modifier:P. Gensel Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-06-13 11:43:11 Last modified:2003-10-22 14:09:54
Access level:group members Released:2001-06-13 11:43:11
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3915. W. H. Lang. 1937. On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 227B:245-291 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk/M. Uhen]

Secondary references:

69036 A. Blieck. 1984. Les Hétérostracés Ptéraspidiformes, Agnathes du Silurien-Dévonien du Continent nord-atlantique et des blocs avoisinants: révision systématique, phylogénie, biostratigraphie, biogéographie. Cahiers de Paleontologie 1-190 [P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall/P. Novack-Gottshall]
3960 N. D. Burgess and D. Edwards. 1988. A new Palaeozoic plant closely allied to Prototaxites Dawson. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 97:189-203 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]
3957 D. Edwards and U. Fanning. 1985. Evolution and environment in the late Silurian-early Devonian: the rise of the pteridophytes. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 309:147-165 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]
3958 U. Fanning, D. Edwards, and J. B. Richardson. 1992. A diverse assemblage of early land plants from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 109:161-188 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]