Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 27.9° S, 12.5° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Monograptus tumescens graptolite zone, Bringewood Formation, Gorstian (427.4 - 425.6 Ma)
• Was Bringwood Beds
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; gray mudstone and siltstone
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: M.L.K. Curtis. 1972. The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 83(1):1-35 [M. Patzkowsky/Z. Krug/Z. Krug]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 49643: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 21.04.2005
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Ostracoda | |
Primitia sp. Jones and Holl 1923 ostracod | |
Beyrichia spp. M'Coy 1846 ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
Dalmanites spp. Barrande 1852 trilobite | |
Proetus spp. Steininger 1831 trilobite | |
Gastropoda | |
"Poleumita globosa" = Oriostoma globosum
"Poleumita globosa" = Oriostoma globosum von Schlotheim 1820 snail | |
"Bembexia lloydi" = Ulrichospira lloydii
"Bembexia lloydi" = Ulrichospira lloydii de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail | |
Loxonema spp. Phillips 1841 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839 | |
Eospirifer radiatus Sowerby 1834 | |
Howellella elegans Muir-Wood 1925 | |
Dalejina hybrida Sowerby 1839 | |
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni de Sowerby 1816 | |
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula Sowerby 1839 | |
Strophomenata | |
Coolinia pecten Linnaeus 1758 | |
Brachyprion spp., "Leptostrophia filosa" = Mesoleptostrophia filosa
Brachyprion spp. Shaler 1865
"Leptostrophia filosa" = Mesoleptostrophia filosa Sowerby 1839 | |
"Amphistrophia funiculata" = Amphistrophiella funiculata
"Amphistrophia funiculata" = Amphistrophiella funiculata M'Coy 1846 | |
Leptaena rhomboidalis Wahlenberg 1818 | |
Craniata | |
Anthozoa | |
Favosites gothlandicus Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral | |
Phaulactis spp. Ryder 1926 horn coral |