Norton (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.4° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 24.0° S, 12.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Downton Castle Sandstone Formation, Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; micaceous sandstone

• "Environment: inadequate data. A BA 0-1 range is reasonable."
• "Well-sorted, medium-grained, micaceous sandstone"

Size class: macrofossils

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 26916: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 08.11.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Parastylonuridae