Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire, Leintwardine Beds (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.9° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 26.8° S, 12.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Leintwardine Beds Formation, Ludlow (427.4 - 423.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; mudstone and conglomeratic limestone

• BA 4 - taken from Cocks et al 2003.
• mudstones and thinly bedded flagstones, with thin bands of shelly and conglomeratic limestone.

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 49657: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Zack Krug on 22.04.2005

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Taxonomic list

• This list is for the Leintwardine Beds of the Tortworth Inlier...it is the combination of several localities around this area.
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella elegans
Howellella elegans Muir-Wood 1925
 Athyridida - Dayiidae
Dayia navicula
Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839
 Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella canalis
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis orbicularis
 Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula
"Camarotoechia nucula" = Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula Sowerby 1839
 Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni de Sowerby 1816
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes ludloviensis
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea rugata