Wensleydale, Five Yard Limestone VIa Cyclothem (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.3° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.5° S, 3.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Five Yard Limestone VIa Cyclothem Formation (Middle Limestone Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deltaic; lithified shale and lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: D. Moore. 1958. The Yoredale Series of Upper Wensleydale and adjacent parts of North-West Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 31(2):91-148 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 73427: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.06.2007

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Spirifer cf. bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer cf. bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia aff. decora Phillips 1836
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Weberides mucronatus McCoy 1844 trilobite