Waun Fawr Quarry, ? M2 band: Westphalian - Vereian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys sp. Traquair 1877
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula mytilloides
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Wales County:Monmouthshire
Coordinates: 51.6° North, 3.1° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.8° South, 7.3° East
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Pennsylvanian
10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 4
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous
*International age/stage:Cheremshanskian - Vereiskian *Local age/stage:Westphalian
Key time interval: Westphalian - Vereian Zone:  A
Age range of interval: 318.8 - 313.8 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: Formation names not given. Zone is 2'6" thick, 48'6" - 51' depth in quarry.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified mudstone
Lithology description: dark grey mudstone.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8228
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-06-29 15:43:48 Last modified:2000-06-29 18:43:48
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
563. D. G. Jones and H. C. Squirrell. 1969. The discovery of the Gastrioceras subcrenulatum Marin Band at Risca, Monmouthshire. Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Great Britain 30:65-70 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]