Dairy Hill, Lapworthella Limestone (Cambrian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.7° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 86.3° S, 25.5° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Lapworthella Limestone Member (Lower Comley Formation), Atdabanian (521.0 - 516.0 Ma)

• See Siveter et al. 2003 txt. f. 3.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

Size class: microfossils

Primary reference: I. Hinz. 1987. The Lower Cambrian microfauna of Comley and Rushton, Shropshire, England. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(1-3):41-100 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79934: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.03.2008

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Taxonomic list

Helcionelloida
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella sp. Matthew 1895
Hyolitha
 Orthothecida - Circothecidae
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
 Tommotiida -
Eccentrotheca kanesia Landing et al. 1980
 Tommotiida - Sunnaginiidae
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969
 Bilateria -
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae