Discovery of Arundian and Holkerian faunas from a Dinantian platform succession in North Wales

1 April 1984

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Geological Journal

Vol. 19 (2) , 85-104
https://doi.org/10.1002/gj.3350190202

Abstract

For the first time Arundian and Holkerian faunas have been recognized from the lower part of the Dinantian succession in North Wales. These limestones and sandstones, hitherto regarded as Asbian, have a macrofauna and microfauna confirming their older age, and this discovery' has necessitated a revision of the palaeogeography in the North Wales region. Biostratigraphical correlations have been made with contemporaneous platform successions in the Central, Northern, and Southwest Provinces of Britain. A new genus and species of foraminifer, Groessensella moldensis, is described.

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