The Herefordshire Lagerstatte is a Silurian fossil deposit in Herefordshire, England, roughly four hundred and thirty million years old, in which marine animals were entombed within a layer of volcanic ash and preserved as three dimensional mineral casts inside carbonate nodules, a preservation style unusual enough that specimens are studied by grinding away thin layers and digitally reconstructing the fossil rather than by physical extraction. The deposit has yielded numerous previously unknown arthropods and other invertebrates.
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In Discipline: Stratigraphy, Lead paragraph
It belongs to the Wenlock Series of the Silurian Period within the Homerian Age
In Group: Paleozoic Fossil Sites, Lead paragraph
It belongs to the Wenlock Series of the Silurian Period within the Homerian Age
Associated With: Silurian, Lead paragraph
Coalbrookdale Formation, earlier known as Wenlock Shale or Wenlock Shale Formation and also referred to as Herefordshire Lagerstätte in palaeontology, is a fossil-rich deposit (Konservat-Lagerstätte) in Powys and Herefordshire at the England-Wales border in UK. It belongs to the Wenlock Series of the Silurian Period within the Homerian Age (about 430 million years ago).
Associated With: Silurian, Lead, age Silurian
It belongs to the Wenlock Series of the Silurian Period within the Homerian Age (about 430 million years ago).
Associated With: Shale, Lead, rock Shale
Coalbrookdale Formation, earlier known as Wenlock Shale or Wenlock Shale Formation and also referred to as Herefordshire Lagerstätte in palaeontology, is a fossil-rich deposit (Konservat-Lagerstätte) in Powys and Herefordshire at the England-Wales border in UK.
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