Deer Park Road Section #4: Ludfordian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Microsphaeridiorhynchia nucula
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4.70 %-specimens | ||||||
Rhopalonaria sp.
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0.01 %-specimens | ||||||
Conodonta
- Ozarkodinida
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Ozarkodina sp.
Branson and Mehl 1933
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0.02 %-elements | ||||||
Craniata
- Craniopsida
- Craniopsidae
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Craniops implicatus
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0.78 %-specimens | ||||||
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Strophochonetidae
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Protochonetes ludloviensis
Muir-Wood 1962
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75.16 %-specimens | ||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Dayiidae
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Dayia navicula
(Sowerby 1839)
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0.04 %-specimens | ||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Draboviidae
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Salopina lunata
(Sowerby 1839)
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16.81 %-specimens | ||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Isorthis sp.
Kozlowski 1929
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0.17 %-specimens | ||||||
Stenolaemata
- Cystoporata
- Ceramoporidae
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Ceramopora sp.
Hall 1851
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0.45 %-specimens | ||||||
Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Heterotrypidae
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Leioclema sp.
Ulrich 1882
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0.81 %-specimens | ||||||
Polychaeta
- Serpulimorpha
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Serpulites longissimus
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0.01 %-specimens | ||||||
Cephalopoda
- Orthocerida
- Orthoceratidae
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Orthoceras sp.
Breynius 1832
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0.01 %-specimens | ||||||
Michelinoceras bullatum
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0.17 %-specimens | ||||||
Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Loxonematidae
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Loxonema obsoletum
(de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
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0.17 %-specimens | ||||||
recombined as Loxonema obsoleta | |||||||
Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Oriostomatidae
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Cyclonema corallii
(de Sowerby and Murchison 1839)
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0.22 %-specimens | ||||||
original and current combination Turbo corallii | |||||||
Bivalvia
- Grammysiidae
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Fuchsella amygdalina
(Sowerby 1827)
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0.7 %-specimens | ||||||
Bivalvia
- Modiomorphida
- Modiomorphidae
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Modiolopsis sp.
Hall 1847
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0.11 %-specimens | ||||||
Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Bairdiocyprididae
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Cytherellina siliqua
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0.35 %-specimens | ||||||
Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Beyrichiidae
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Beyrichia sp.
M'Coy 1846
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1.02 %-specimens | ||||||
Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
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Scaldianella simplex
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0.79 %-specimens | ||||||
Hebellum cf. tetragonum
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0.87 %-specimens | ||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England |
Coordinates: | 52.5° North, 2.6° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 25.7° South, 12.3° West | ||
Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
Period: | Silurian | Epoch: | Ludlow |
Stage: | Ludfordian | 10 m.y. bin: | Silurian 2 |
*Period: | Late/Upper Silurian | *Epoch: | Late/Upper Ludlovian |
*International age/stage: | Late/Upper Ludfordian | ||
Key time interval: | Ludfordian | ||
Age range of interval: | 425.60000 - 423.00000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Overton | ||||
Local section: | Deer Park Road | Local bed: | 5.97 - 9.14 m | ||
Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: Lower Whitcliffe Beds. Not sure if section really is numbered bottom to top... |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | current ripples,wave ripples,bioturbation,shelly/skeletal lithified siltstone |
Lithology description: 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. | |
Environment: | offshore |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:18047 total specimens FOR ALL 7 entries in this section. |
Metadata
Database number: | 8313 | ||
Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2000-07-05 17:28:53 | Last modified: | 2000-07-05 20:28:53 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:37 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
570. | 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] |