Where: England, United Kingdom (52.5° N, 2.6° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 9.6° S, 49.6° W (Wright 2013)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Overton Formation, Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)
• Lower Whitcliffe Beds, the 2.26 m of sediment in the track section above Overton Quarry.
• 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 8325: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| unclassified | |
| Ostracoda | |
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Scaldianella cf. simplex ostracod | |
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Calcaribeyrichia tegula ostracod | |
| Polychaeta | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta
"Loxonema obsoletum" = Loxonema obsoleta de Sowerby and Murchison 1839 snail unsure if typo or round-down
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| Bivalvia | |
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Nuculites ovata clam | |
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Pterinea tenuistriata oyster
Pteronitella retroflexa oyster | |
"Goniophora cymbaeformis" = Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis
"Goniophora cymbaeformis" = Goniophora (Goniophora) cymbaeformis Sowerby 1839 clam | |
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Fuchsella amygdalina Sowerby 1827 clam | |
| Rhynchonellata | |
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Salopina lunata Sowerby 1839 | |
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Microsphaeridiorhynchus nucula Sowerby 1839 | |
| Strophomenata | |
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Protochonetes ludloviensis Muir-Wood 1962 | |
| Stenolaemata | |
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Leioclema sp. Ulrich 1882 | |
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Ceramopora sp. Hall 1851 | |
| Chondrichthyes | |
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Onchus sp. Agassiz 1837 spiny fish | |