6 BRITISH AVONIAN CONODONT FAUNAS 
Wenlockian conodonts have been collected from the Welsh Borderland by Hill (1936) 
and systematically described from Usk by Austin & Bassett (1967). Conodonts 
from the Woolhope, Wenlock, Aymestry and Whitcliffian Limestones of the Welsh 
Borderland were reported by Ireland (1958, 1962). Rhodes (1953) with Newall 
(1963) systematically described a fauna from the Aymestry Limestone of Shropshire 
and South Staffordshire. Squirrell & Tucker (1960) listed Upper Ludlovian cono- 
donts from the Woolhope Inlier and Collinson & Druce (1966) systematically 
described a fauna from the Whitcliffe Flags of Shropshire which was referable to the 
eosteinhornensis Zone of Walliser (1964). 
Dineley & Rhodes (1956) described Devonian conodonts from the Upper Givetian 
at Torquay, from the Lower Frasnian near Chudleigh, from the Lower Frasnian at 
East Ogwell and from the Lower Pilton Beds (Strunian) at Saunton, North Devon. 
They also described (1957) an Upper Devonian fauna from the limestones of the 
Bishopsteignton borehole. Matthews (1962) reported a late Eifelian fauna from a 
Middle Devonian limestone at Neal Point in the Tamar Valley. | House (1963, table 
2) and House & Selwood (1964) have summarised known Devonian conodont 
occurrences in South West England. The only new conodont record noted by House 
& Selwood was an Upper Givetian conodont fauna from the Marble Cliff Beds, 
identified by Rhodes. Rhodes also identified Lower Givetian conodonts from the 
Middle Gramscatho Limestones for Hendriks (1966). Other limestones yielding 
Siegenian, Emsian and Middle Devonian conodonts are also mentioned. Ziegler 
(Hendriks 1966) has also extracted Frasnian conodonts from limestones interstitial 
with the Mullion Island pillow lavas. 
British Lower Carboniferous conodont studies have been few and brief. Moore 
(1863, 1870) listed conodonts from the Carboniferous Limestone of Yorkshire and 
Cumberland, Fowler (1955) mentioned conodonts obtained from a borehole in South- 
East County Tyrone, Eire, and Robbie (1955) reported conodonts from the Rossmore 
and Edenbrook beds of Lower Carboniferous age obtained from the subsurface at 
Edenork, County Tyrone, Ireland. Dineley & Rhodes (1956) studied eight samples 
from the Tournaisian of South West England. Small faunas from the Shirehampton 
Beds, the Lower Limestone Shale, the Black Rock Limestone, the Fish Bed and 
Horizon y, collected in the Avon Gorge, Bristol, were described, as also were faunas 
from the ? Black Rock Limestones of Windsor Hill, Somerset and Waterlip Quarry, 
Somerset. Matthews (1961, 1966) has identified anchoralis faunas collected at 
Viverdon Down near Callington, and from the St. Mellion area of South West 
England. Varker (1967) has described conodonts referable to the genus A patog- 
nathus from the Yoredales of Northern England. 
Young (1880, 1880A) mentioned the occurrence of Scottish Carboniferous Lime- 
stone conodonts, in addition to those of the Silurian and Devonian of England. 
Smith (1900) reported conodonts from the Carboniferous limestones of Western 
Scotland and figured those described by Hinde (1879, 1900). These were sub- 
sequently refigured and redescribed by Clarke (1960) who also described faunas from 
the Scottish Carboniferous Limestone Series. Craig (1952, 1954) reported conodonts 
from the Top Hosie Shale, of Lower Carboniferous age, near Kilsyth, Scotland. 
