Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire, Leintwardine Beds: Ludlow, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Strophochonetidae
Protochonetes ludloviensis Muir-Wood 1962
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Trigonirhynchiidae
Camarotoechia nucula (Sowerby 1839)
recombined as Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Hebetoechiidae
Sphaerirhynchia wilsoni (de Sowerby 1816)
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Dalmanellidae
Isorthis orbicularis
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Delthyrididae
Howellella elegans Muir-Wood 1925
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Meristellidae
Whitfieldella canalis
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Dayiidae
Dayia navicula (Sowerby 1839)
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea rugata
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Gloucestershire
Coordinates: 51.9° North, 2.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:26.8° South, 12.1° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Silurian Epoch:Ludlow
10 m.y. bin:Silurian 2
Key time interval:Ludlow
Age range of interval:427.40000 - 423.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Leintwardine Beds
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Secondary lithology: conglomeratic "limestone"
Lithology description: mudstones and thinly bedded flagstones, with thin bands of shelly and conglomeratic limestone.
Environment:transition zone/lower shoreface
Geology comments: BA 4 - taken from Cocks et al 2003.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:general faunal/floral analysis
Taxonomic list comments:This list is for the Leintwardine Beds of the Tortworth Inlier...it is the combination of several localities around this area.
Metadata
Database number:49657
Authorizer:M. Patzkowsky Enterer:A. Krug
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2005-04-22 07:36:37 Last modified:2018-12-12 10:32:14
Access level:the public Released:2005-04-22 07:36:37
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

13293. M.L.K. Curtis. 1972. The Silurian rocks of the Tortworth Inlier, Gloucestershire. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association 83(1):1-35 [M. Patzkowsky/A. Krug/A. Krug]