Eurypterid-Associated Biota of the Whitcliffe Formation, Ludlow, England (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 12.4° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Whitcliffe Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, green siltstone and green shale

• "Basset et al. (1982): 'proximal shelf regions of shallow, mainly clear but often turbid and sometimes brackish water...' Sedimentation mostly intertidal, some subtidal, coquinas are storm deposits. BA 2"
• "Green, flaggy siltstone and shale, with less common sandstone; coquinite layers with flat, erosional bases; ripple marks, parallel laminations, scour channels, herring-bone cross bedding"

Primary reference: R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 26911: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.11.2002

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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 Life -
Acritarcha indet. Evitt 1963 acritarchs
Deuteropoda
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Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802 ostracod
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Carcinosomatidae
 Eurypterida - Pterygotidae
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes sp. Muir-Wood 1962
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina sp. Boucot 1960
Bivalvia
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"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia
"Pelecypoda indet." = Bivalvia Linnaeus 1758 clam
Conodonta
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 Thelodontida - Coelolepidae
Thelodus sp. Agassiz 1839
Logania
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Logania sp. Gross 1967