Where: England, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.6° W: paleocoordinates 25.7° S, 12.3° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Overton Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)
• Lower Whitcliffe Beds. Not sure if section really is numbered bottom to top...
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, bioturbated, shelly/skeletal siltstone
Primary reference: D. D. J. Antia. 1981. Faunas from the Upper Silurian (Upper Ludlovian) in the Ludlow-Much Wenlock District, England. Geological Journal 16:137-147 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8311: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 05.07.2000, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Polychaeta | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Cyclonema corallii" = Oriostoma coralli
"Cyclonema corallii" = Oriostoma coralli de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail | |
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Nuculites ovata clam
Nuculites antiquas clam | |
Fuchsella amygdalina Sowerby 1827 clam | |
"Goniophora cymbaeformis" = Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis, Modiolopsis sp.
"Goniophora cymbaeformis" = Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis Sowerby 1839 clam
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam | |
Cardiola interrupta clam | |
Craniata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Howellella sp. Kozlowski 1946 | |
Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839 | |
Salopina lunata Sowerby 1839 | |
Strophomenata | |
Protochonetes ludloviensis Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Hyolitha | |
Stenolaemata | |
Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Ceramopora sp. Hall 1851 | |
Ostracoda | |
Scaldianella simplex ostracod
Hebellum cf. tetragonum ostracod | |
Beyrichia sp. M'Coy 1846 ostracod | |
Cavellina cf. primaria ostracod |