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)
• Upper Leintwardine Beds, basal 2.04 m section.
• 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 8320: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Cephalopoda | |
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pteronitella retroflexa oyster | |
Fuchsella amygdalina Sowerby 1827 clam | |
Strophomenata | |
Protochonetes ludloviensis Muir-Wood 1962 | |
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa
"Leptaena depressa" = Leptaena (Leptaena) depressa Sowerby 1824 | |
"Shaleria ornatella" = Shaleria (Janiomya) ornatella
"Shaleria ornatella" = Shaleria (Janiomya) ornatella Davidson 1871 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni de Sowerby 1816 | |
Salopina lunata Sowerby 1839 | |
Atrypa reticularis Linnaeus 1758 | |
Howellella elegans Muir-Wood 1925 | |
Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839 | |
Craniata | |
Lingulata | |
Stenolaemata | |
Ceramopora sp. Hall 1851 | |
Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
Hyolitha | |
Polychaeta | |
Tentaculita | |
Cornulites sp. Schlotheim 1820 | |
Ostracoda | |
Hebellum cf. tetragonum ostracod
Scaldianella cf. simplex ostracod | |
"Neobeyrichia lauensis" = Beyrichia
"Neobeyrichia lauensis" = Beyrichia ostracod | |
Cavellina sp. Coryell 1928 ostracod | |
Cytherellina siliqua ostracod | |
Trilobita | |
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Calymene sp. Brongniart 1822 trilobite | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Ischnacanthus kingi White 1961 spiny fish | |
Conodonta | |
Ozarkodina sp. Branson and Mehl 1933 conodont |