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