Deer Park Road Section #4 (Silurian of the United Kingdom)

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

• interbedded highly bioturbated calcareous siltstones in which most lamination destroyed by bioturbation. alternates with thin 'storm generated' siltstone and shell laminae. minor scour channels and slumping. occassional symmetric and asymmetric ripple laminae.

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 8313: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 05.07.2000

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• 18047 total specimens FOR ALL 7 entries in this section.
Show authors, comments, and common names
unclassified
  -
Rhopalonaria sp., Microsphaeridiorhynchia nucula
Conodonta
 Ozarkodinida -
Ozarkodina sp.
Ozarkodina sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont
Polychaeta
 Serpulimorpha -
Serpulites longissimus
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Michelinoceras bullatum, Orthoceras sp.
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Oriostomatidae
"Cyclonema corallii" = Oriostoma coralli
"Cyclonema corallii" = Oriostoma coralli de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail
 Murchisoniina - Loxonematidae
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail
Bivalvia
 Cardiidia - Grammysiidae
Fuchsella amygdalina
Fuchsella amygdalina Sowerby 1827 clam
 Modiomorphida - Modiomorphidae
Modiolopsis sp.
Modiolopsis sp. Hall 1847 clam
Craniata
 Craniopsida - Craniopsidae
Craniops implicatus
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Dayiidae
Dayia navicula
Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839
 Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis sp.
Isorthis sp. Kozlowski 1929
 Orthida - Draboviidae
Salopina lunata
Salopina lunata Sowerby 1839
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes ludloviensis
Stenolaemata
 Trepostomata - Heterotrypidae
Leioclema sp.
Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882
 Cystoporata - Ceramoporidae
Ceramopora sp.
Ceramopora sp. Hall 1851
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida -
Scaldianella simplex, Hebellum cf. tetragonum
 Palaeocopida - Beyrichiidae
Beyrichia sp.
Beyrichia sp. M'Coy 1846 ostracod
 Podocopida - Bairdiocyprididae
Cytherellina siliqua