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, 3.66 - 6.30 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 8323: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Hebellum cf. tetragonum ostracod | |
Strophomenata | |
Protochonetes ludloviensis Muir-Wood 1962 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Dayia navicula Sowerby 1839 | |
Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula Sowerby 1839 | |
Salopina lunata Sowerby 1839 | |
Bivalvia | |
Pterinea tenuistriata oyster | |
Cardiola interrupta clam | |
Cephalopoda | |