The Radiolaria of the Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte (Silurian), England

Siveter, David J.; Aitchison, Jonathan C.; Siveter, Derek J.; Sutton, Mark D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.26.1.87

Articles | Volume 26, issue 1

Article
Metrics
Related articles

Articles | Volume 26, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.26.1.87

Articles | Volume 26, issue 1

Article
Metrics
Related articles

01 Apr 2007

| 01 Apr 2007

The Radiolaria of the Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte (Silurian), England

David J. Siveter, Jonathan C. Aitchison, Derek J. Siveter, and Mark D. Sutton

David J. Siveter

Department of Geology, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK (e-mail: )

Jonathan C. Aitchison

Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China (e-mail: )

Derek J. Siveter

Geological Collections, University Museum of Natural History & Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PW, UK (e-mail: )

Mark D. Sutton

Department of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2BP, UK (e-mail: )

Cited articles

J. C., Aitchison: Early Silurian radiolarians from the Gospel Oak Shale, Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, AustraliaSixth INTERRAD conference (International Association of Radiolarian Palaeontologists), University of Florence, Italy, Abstracts, 9., 1991.

J. C., Aitchison and B. L., Murchey: (Eds) Significance and application of Radiolaria to terrane analysisPalaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 96Elsevier, Amsterdam, 174pp., 1992.

J. C., Aitchison, S., Hada, T. R., Ireland and S., Yoshikura: Ages of Silurian radiolarians from the Kurosegawa terrane, southwest Japan constrained by U/Pb SHRIMP data, Journal of Southeast Asian Earth Sciences, 14, 53-70, 1996.

R. J., Aldridge, David J., Siveter, Derek J., Siveter, P. D., Lane, D., Plamer and N., Woodcock: British Silurian StratigraphyGeological Conservation Review Series, 19Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Peterborough, 542pp., 2000.

E. O., Amon, A., Braun and K. S., Ivanov: Upper Silurian radiolarians from the southern Urals, Geologica et Palaeontologica, 29, 1-17, 1995.

O. R., Anderson: RadiolariaSpringer-Verlag, New York, USA, 365pp., 1983.

M. G., Bassett: Review of the stratigraphy of the Wenlock Series in the Welsh Borderland and South Wales, Palaeontology, 17, 745-777, 1974.

M. G., Bassett, B. J., Bluck, R., Cave, C. H., Holland and J. D., Lawson: SilurianIn: (Eds), Atlas of Palaeogeography and LithofaciesGeological Society, London, Memoirs, 13: 37–56., 1992.

C. E., Brett, A. J., Boucot and B., Jones: Absolute depths of Silurian benthic assemblages, Lethaia, 26, 25-40, 1993.

D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: Soft-bodied fossils from a Silurian volcaniclastic deposit, Nature, 382, 248-250, 1996.

D. E. G., Briggs, M. D., Sutton, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: A new phyllocarid (Crustacea: Malacostraca) from the Silurian Fossil-Lagerstätte of Herefordshire, UK, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 271, 131-138, 2004.

D. E. G., Briggs, M. D., Sutton, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: Metamorphosis in a Silurian barnacle, Proceedings of the Royal Society, London B, 272, 2365-2369, 2005.

G. N., Calkins: ProtozoologyLea & Febiger, New York, 349pp., 1909.

G., Deflandre: Radiolaires fossilesIn: (Ed.), Traité de Zoologie, 1 (2)Masson, Paris, 389–436., 1953.

P., Dumitrica, M., Caridroit and P., DeWever: Archaeospicularia, ordre nouveau de radiolaires: une nouvelle étape pour la classification des radiolaires du Paléozoïque inférieur, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des sciences. Série II. Sciences de la terre et des planets, 330, 563-569, 2000.

C. G., Ehrenberg: Über die Bildung der Kreidefelsen und des Kreidemergel durch unsichtbare Organismen, Abhandlungen Konigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1838, 59-147, 1838.

C. G., Ehrenberg: Fortsetzung der mikrogeologischen Studien als Gesammt-Uebersichtder mikroskopischen Palaontologie gleichartig analysirter Gebirgsarten der Erde, mit specieller Rucksicht auf den Polycystinen-Mergel von Barbados, Konigliche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Abhandlungen, 1875, 1-225, 1875.

H. P., Foreman: Upper Devonian Radiolaria from the Huron member of the Ohio shale, Micropaleontology, 9, 267-304, 1963.

R. A., Fortey and L. R. M., Cocks: Palaeontological evidence bearing on global Ordovician–Silurian reconstructions, Earth Science Reviews, 61, 245-307, 2003.

H., Furutani: Middle Paleozoic radiolarians from Fukuji Area, Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, Journal of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University, 37, 1-56, 1990.

Q. H., Goodbody: Wenlock Palaeoscenidiidae and Entactiniidae (Radiolaria) from the Cape Phillips Formation of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Micropaleontology, 32, 129-157, 1986.

H., Gorka: Late Caradoc and early Ludlow Radiolaria from Baltic erratic boulders, Acta Paleontologica Polonica, 39, 169-179, 1994.

J. M., Hurst, N. J., Hancock and W. S., McKerrow: Wenlock stratigraphy and palaeogeography of Wales and the Welsh Borderland, Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, 89, 197-226, 1978.

M. K., Jones and P. J., Noble: Sheinwoodian (uppermost Lower Silurian) Radiolarian from the Cape Phillips Formation, Nunavut, Canada, Micropaleontology, 52

H., Kozur and H., Mostler: Entactinaria suborder nov., a new radiolarian suborder, Geologische-Palaontologische Mitteilungen Innsbruck, 11, 399-414, 1982.

T., Kurihara and K., Sashida: Occurrence and significance of the Late Silurian and Early to Middle Devonian radiolarians from the Kuzuryu Lake district of the Hida Gaien Belt, Fukui Prefecture, central Japan, Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 104, 845-858, 1998.

H.-S., Li: Middle Silurian radiolarians from Keerhada, Xinjiang, Acta Micropalaeontologica Sinica, 11, 259-272, 1994.

E. W., MacDonald: Llandovery Secuicollactinae and Rotasphaeridae (Radiolaria) from the Cape Phillips Formation, Cornwallis Island, Arctic Canada, Journal of Paleontology, 72, 585-604, 1998.

E. W., MacDonald: Insolitignum n. gen. and Palaeoephippium Goodbody 1986 (Radiolaria) from the Lower Silurian of the Cape Phillips Formation, Arctic Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 36, 2051-2057, 1999.

E. W., MacDonald: Radiolaria from the Lower Silurian of the Cape Phillips Formation, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, CanadaPhD thesisDalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 370pp., 2003.

E. W., MacDonald: Palaeoscenidiidae (Radiolaria) from the Lower Silurian of the Cape Phillips Formation, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada, Journal of Paleontology, 78, 257-274, 2004.

E. W., MacDonald: Haplotaeniatumidae and Inaniguttidadae (Radiolaria) from the Lower Silurian of the Cape Phillips Formation, Cornwallis Island, Nunavut, Canada, Journal of Paleontology, 80, 19-37, 2006a.

E. W., MacDonald: A preliminary radiolarian biozonation for the Lower Silurian of the Cape Phillips Formation, Nunavut, Canada, Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43, 205-211, 2006b.

J., Maletz and M., Reich: Radiolarians and sponge spicules from the Spirograptus turriculatus Zone (Llandovery, Silurian) of the Siljan district, Dalarna (Sweden), Greifswalder Geowissenschaftliche Beiträge, 4, 101-111, 1997.

J., Müller: Über die Thalassicollen, Polycystinen und Acanthometren des Mittelmeeres, Abhandlungen Konigliche Akademie Wissenschaften zu Berlin, 1858, 1-62, 1858.

B. B., Nazarov: Lower and Middle Paleozoic radiolarians of Kazakhstan (methods of investigation, systematics, stratigraphic importance)Transactions of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Geological InstituteIzdatelstvo Nauka, Moscow, USSR, [in Russian]., 1975.

B. B., Nazarov: Palaeozoic RadiolariaPractical manual of microfauna of the USSR, 2Nedra Press, Leningrad, 232pp[in Russian]., 1988.

B. B., Nazarov and A. R., Ormiston: Tentative system of Paleozoic RadiolariaIn: (Eds), Morphology, Ecology and Evolution of RadiolariaEurorad IV Symposium volume, October 15–19Akademia NAUK SSSR Ecological Institute, 64–87., 1984.

B. B., Nazarov and A. R., Ormiston: New biostratigraphically important Paleozoic Radiolaria of Eurasia and North AmericaIn: (Eds), Radiolaria of giant and subgiant fields in AsiaNazarov Memorial VolumeMicropaleontology Special Publication, 6American Museum of Natural History, New York, 22–60., 1993.

B. B., Nazarov and L. Y., Popov: Stratigraphy and fauna of the siliceous–carbonate sequence of the Ordovician of Kazakhstan (Radiolaria and inarticulate brachiopods)Trudy Geologicheskij Institut Academija Nauk SSSR, 331: 182pp [in Russian]., 1980.

P. J., Noble: Silurian radiolarian zonation for the Caballos Novaculite, Marathon Uplift, West Texas, Bulletins of American Paleontology, 106, 1-55, 1994.

P. J., Noble and J. C., Aitchison: Status of Ordovician and Silurian radiolarian studies in North AmericaIn: (Eds), Siliceous MicrofossilsShort Courses in PaleontologyThe Paleontological Society, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 19–30., 1995.

P. J., Noble and J. C., Aitchison: Early Paleozoic radiolarian biozonation, Geology, 28, 367-370, 2000.

P. J., Noble and J., Maletz: Radiolaria from the Telychian (Llandovery, Early Silurian) of Dalarna, Sweden, Micropaleontology, 46, 265-275, 2000.

P. J., Noble, K. B., Ketner and W., McClelland: Early Silurian radiolaria from northern Nevada, USA, Marine Micropaleontology, 30, 215-223, 1997.

P. J., Noble, A., Braun and W., McClelland: Haplotaeniatum faunas (Radiolaria) from the Llandoverian (Silurian) of Nevada and Germany, Neues Jarbuch für Geologie und Palaeontologie, Mh, 1998, 705-726, 1998.

P. J., Orr, Derek J., Siveter, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and M. D., Sutton: A new arthropod from the Silurian Konservat-Lagerstätte of Herefordshire, England, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 267, 1497-1504, 2000a.

P. J., Orr, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: Three-dimensional preservation of a non-mineralized arthropod in concretions in Silurian volcaniclastic rocks from Herefordshire, England, Journal of the Geological Society, London, 157, 173-186, 2000b.

P. J., Orr, David J., Siveter, D. E. G., Briggs and Derek J., Siveter: Preservation of radiolarians in the Herefordshire Konservat-Lagerstätte (Wenlock, Silurian), England, and implications for the taphonomy of the biota, Studies in Palaeozoic palaeontology and biostratigraphy in honour of Charles Hepworth Holland, 67, 205-224, 2002.

K. T., Pickering and A. G., Smith: Arcs and backarc basins in the early Palaeozoic Iapetus Ocean, The Island Arc, 4, 1-5, 1995.

G. W., Renz: Silurian radiolarians of the genus Ceratoikiscum from the Canadian Arctic, Micropaleontology, 34, 260-267, 1988.

D., Rüst: Beitrage zur Kenntnis der fossilen Radiolarien aus Gesteinen der Trias und der palaeozoischen Schichten, Palaeontographica, 38, 107-179, 1892.

David J., Siveter, M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs and Derek J., Siveter: An ostracode crustacean with soft parts from the Lower Silurian, Science, 302, 1749-1751, 2003.

Derek J., Siveter, M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs and David J., Siveter: A Silurian sea spider, Nature, 431, 978-980, 2004.

David J., Siveter, Derek J., Siveter, M. D., Sutton and D. E. G., Briggs: Brood care in a Silurian ostracod, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 274, 465-469, 2007.

W., Stürmer: Zur technique an Graptolithen und Radiolarian in Main-Kiesel-schiefern, Seckenbergiana, 2, 351-355, 1952.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: An exceptionally preserved vermiform mollusc from the Silurian of England, Nature, 410, 461-463, 2001a.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: Acaenoplax — polychaete or mollusc?, Nature, 414, 602-2001b.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: A three-dimensionally preserved fossil polychaete worm from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 268, 2355-2363, 2001c.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: Methodologies for the visualization and reconstruction of three-dimensional fossils from the Silurian Herefordshire LagerstättePalaeontographica Electronica, 4: Available online at http://palaeo-electronica.org/2001_1/s2/issue1_01.htm., 2001d.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter, Derek J., Siveter and P. J., Orr: The arthropod Offacolus kingi (Chelicerata) from the Silurian of Herefordshire, England: computer based morphological reconstructions and phylogenetic affinities, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 269, 1195-1203, 2002.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: Computer reconstruction and analysis of the vermiform mollusc Acaenoplax hayae from the Herefordshire Lagerstätte (Silurian, England), and implications for molluscan phylogeny, Palaeontology, 47, 293-318, 2004.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: Silurian brachiopods with soft-tissue preservation, Nature, 436, 1013-1015, 2005a.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter, Derek J., Siveter and D. J., Gladwell: A starfish with three-dimensionally preserved soft-parts from the Silurian of England, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 272, 1001-1006, 2005b.

M. D., Sutton, D. E. G., Briggs, David J., Siveter and Derek J., Siveter: Fossilized soft tissues in a Silurian platyceratid gastropod, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 273, 1039-1044, 2006.

M., Umeda: Late Silurian and Early Devonian radiolarians from Konomori area in the Kurosegawa Terrane, Southwest Japan, Chikyu Kagaku, 51, 413-432, 1997.

M., Umeda: Some Late Silurian characteristic radiolarians from the Yokokurayama Group in the Kurosegawa Terrane, Southwest Japan, Chikyu Kagaku, 52, 203-209, 1998a.

M., Umeda: The Silurian and Devonian Yokokurayama Group of the Kurosegawa Terrane, in the Yokokurayama area, Kochi, Southwest Japan, Journal of the Geological Society of Japan, 104, 365-376, 1998b.

M., Umeda: Upper Silurian–Middle Devonian radiolarian zones of the Yokokurayama and Konomori areas in the Kurosegawa Belt, Southwest Japan, The Island Arc, 7, 637-646, 1998c.

M., Umeda and Y., Suzuki: Aeronian (Llandovery, Early Silurian) Radiolarians from the Kallholn Formation in Siljan district, Sweden, Micropaleontology, 51, 83-92, 2005.

H., Wakamatsu, K., Sugiyama and H., Furutani: Silurian and Devonian radiolarians from the Kurosegawa Tectonic Zone, southwest Japan, Journal of Earth Sciences, Nagoya University, 37, 157-192, 1990.

M-Z., Won, R. B., Blodgett and V., Nestor: Llandoverian (Early Silurian) radiolarians from the Road River Formation of east-central Alaska and the new family Haplotaeniatumidae, Journal of Paleontology, 76, 941-964, 2002.