Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° S, 2.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Lynton Slates Formation, Late/Upper Emsian (402.5 - 391.9 Ma)
• "probable late Emsian age"
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, silty slate and gray sandstone
Primary reference: E. A. Edmonds, A. Whittaker, and B. J. Williams. 1985. Geology of the country around Ilfracombe and Barnstaple (Memoirs of the British Geological Survey for 1:50000 sheets 277 and 293, new series) 1-97 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38389: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Strophomenata | |
"? Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea
"? Chonetacea indet." = Chonetoidea Bronn 1862 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 | |
Bivalvia | |
"? Ptychopteria (? Actinopteria) ? spinosa" = Actinopteria
"? Ptychopteria (? Actinopteria) ? spinosa" = Actinopteria oyster | |