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Description
The edge of a shallow reef in the area that will one day become the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of the West Midlands, England, during the mid Silurian, 430 million years ago. The Wenlock Limestone is one of the most productive Lägerstatte of the Silurian, stretching throughout England and Wales, with a huge variety of marine invertebrates coming out of its’ rocks. Restored here is just a fraction of fossil taxa found from the formation, particularly from the localities around Dudley in the West Midlands (only a few miles away from where I live):

(left to right)
1. Anastrophia sp. (brachiopod)
2. Periechocrinus sp. (crinoid)
3. Dawsonoceras sp. (orthocone)
4. Monograptus priodon (graptolite)
5. Ptilodictya triangularis (bryozoan)
6. Microsphaeridiorhynchus sp. (brachiopod)
7. Cystiphyllum siluriense (rugose coral)
8. Coenites sp. (branching tabulate coral)
9. Ozarkodina sagitta (conodont)
10. Dalmanites myops (trilobite)
11. Pycnactis sp. (small rugose coral)
12. Entelophyllum articulus (colonial rugose coral)
13. Poleumita discors (gastropod)
14. Wurmiella excavata (conodont)
15. Eospirifer sp. (brachiopod)
16. Striispirifer sp. (brachiopod)
17. Calymene blumenbachii (trilobite a.k.a. “The Dudley Bug”)
18. Tryplasma sp. (small rugose coral)
19. Phaulactis sp. (rugose coral)
20. Resserella sp. (brachiopod)
21. Dalmanites caudatus (trilobite)
22. Hallopora sp. (branching bryozoan)
23. Prunocystis sp. (cystoid)
24. Pterygotus grandidentatus (giant eurypterid)
25. Ozarkodina confluens (conodont)
26. Marsupiocrinus sp. (crinoid)
27. Platyceras haliotis (parasitic gastropod)
28. Acastocephala dudleyensis (trilobite)
29. Strophonella sp. (brachiopod)
30. Lepidactis wenlocki (starfish)
31. Syringopora sp. (tabulate coral)
32. Aquilonifer spinosus (brooding arthropod)

Description
The edge of a shallow reef in the area that will one day become the Much Wenlock Limestone Formation of the West Midlands, England, during the mid Silurian, 430 million years ago. The Wenlock Limestone is one of the most productive Lägerstatte of the Silurian, stretching throughout England and Wales, with a huge variety of marine invertebrates coming out of its’ rocks. Restored here is just a fraction of fossil taxa found from the formation, particularly from the localities around Dudley in the West Midlands (only a few miles away from where I live):

(left to right)
1. Anastrophia sp. (brachiopod)
2. Periechocrinus sp. (crinoid)
3. Dawsonoceras sp. (orthocone)
4. Monograptus priodon (graptolite)
5. Ptilodictya triangularis (bryozoan)
6. Microsphaeridiorhynchus sp. (brachiopod)
7. Cystiphyllum siluriense (rugose coral)
8. Coenites sp. (branching tabulate coral)
9. Ozarkodina sagitta (conodont)
10. Dalmanites myops (trilobite)
11. Pycnactis sp. (small rugose coral)
12. Entelophyllum articulus (colonial rugose coral)
13. Poleumita discors (gastropod)
14. Wurmiella excavata (conodont)
15. Eospirifer sp. (brachiopod)
16. Striispirifer sp. (brachiopod)
17. Calymene blumenbachii (trilobite a.k.a. “The Dudley Bug”)
18. Tryplasma sp. (small rugose coral)
19. Phaulactis sp. (rugose coral)
20. Resserella sp. (brachiopod)
21. Dalmanites caudatus (trilobite)
22. Hallopora sp. (branching bryozoan)
23. Prunocystis sp. (cystoid)
24. Pterygotus grandidentatus (giant eurypterid)
25. Ozarkodina confluens (conodont)
26. Marsupiocrinus sp. (crinoid)
27. Platyceras haliotis (parasitic gastropod)
28. Acastocephala dudleyensis (trilobite)
29. Strophonella sp. (brachiopod)
30. Lepidactis wenlocki (starfish)
31. Syringopora sp. (tabulate coral)
32. Aquilonifer spinosus (brooding arthropod)