Davia navicula Association of the Basal Leintwardine Fm., Welsh Borderland (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 26.1° S, 11.8° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• basin-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Leintwardine Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and calcareous siltstone

• See lithology.
• "The top of the Aymestrey Limestone facies through calcareous siltstone facies of the shelf edge region...Winnowed skeletal accumulations of moderate to high current energy...interbedded with more locally derived populations in densely packed assemblages among well-bioturbaed sediments...lower oxygen...BA 3"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: L. Cherns. 1999. Faunal associations of the Lower Leintwardine Formation of the Anglo-Welsh Basin. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 373-379 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26300: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 11.10.2002

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Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Dayiidae
Dayia navicula
Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839