Cobbold's excavation No. 2, Strenuella Limestone, 200 yards south of Comley Quar (Cambrian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 86.5° S, 19.7° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Rhombocorniculum cancellatum small shelly zone, Strenuella Limestone Member (Lower Comley Formation), Branchian (520.0 - 513.0 Ma)

• Matthews (1973: Palaeontology 16(1):139-148) gives this as upper part of Atdabanian.

•Ac4 in Cobbold's (1921) notation.

•Subzone of Protolenellus; this should be Branchian.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: glauconitic, phosphatic, gray, red limestone

• Rushton (1974): shallow-water environment
• reddish-grey limestone (Matthews 1973).

Size class: microfossils

Collection methods: chemical

Primary reference: I. Hinz. 1987. The Lower Cambrian microfauna of Comley and Rushton, Shropshire, England. Palaeontographica Abteilung A 198(1-3):41-100 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 79931: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 27.03.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Hexactinellida
 Lyssakida - Hyalostellidae
Calcihexactina "sp. indet." Sdzuy 1969 glass sponge
Coleoloides typicalis
  -
Coleoloides typicalis Walcott 1890
Coeloscleritophora
 Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Scyphozoa
 Anabaritida - Anabaritidae
Selindeochrea ? tricarinata1 Rozanov et al. 1969 jellyfish
 Bilateria -
Artiopoda
 Agnostida - Weymouthiidae
 Agnostida - Calodiscidae
Microdictyon
  -
Palaeoscolecida
 Cricocosmida - Palaeoscolecidae
Brachiopoda
 Tommotiida - Lapworthellidae
Lapworthella dentata2 Missarzhevsky 1969
Matthews does not say if this replaces the other Lapworthella.
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Eoobolidae
"Lingulella viridis" = Eoobolus viridis
"Lingulella viridis" = Eoobolus viridis Cobbold 1921
 Lingulida - Obolidae
Orthothecimorpha
 Circothecida -
"cf. Coleolella billingsi" = Spinulitheca billingsi
"cf. Coleolella billingsi" = Spinulitheca billingsi Syssoiev 1962
Hyolitha
 Hyolithida - Hyolithidae
 Hyolithida - Nelegerocornidae
 Orthothecida - Allathecidae
"Egdetheca "sp. indet."" = Exilitheca
"Egdetheca "sp. indet."" = Exilitheca
 Orthothecida -
? Turcutheca "sp. A" Rozanov et al. 1969
Helcionelloida
 Helcionellida - Stenothecidae
"Anabarella indecora" = Mellopegma indecora
"Anabarella indecora" = Mellopegma indecora Rozanov et al. 1969
 Helcionellida - Yochelcionellidae
Yochelcionella sp. Runnegar and Pojeta 1974
 Helcionellida - Coreospiridae
Latouchella sp. Cobbold 1921
 Pelagiellida - Pelagiellidae
Pelagiella sp. Matthew 1895
Conodonta
 Paraconodontida - Furnishinidae
  - Amphigeisinidae
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae