Conglomerate beds, Hartshill Fm., Warwickshire, UK - Brasier and Hewitt 1978 (Cambrian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Warwickshire, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 85.0° S, 64.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Home Farm Member (Hartshill Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)

• The top of the Formation (Home Farm Member and overlying Woodlands Member) has been correlated with the Tommotian Stage of the Siberian Cambrian. The Home Farm member is approximately 2m thick with a 0.15-0.45m thick group of conglomerate beds.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shoreface; lithified conglomerate and lithified sandstone

• basal conglomerates, cross bedded, quartzose conglomerate and sandstones with clasts composed of red/grey shale and interclasts, vein quartz, sheared quartzite, plagioclase, volcanic rocks, and glauconic grains.

Preservation: trace

Primary reference: M. D. Brasier and R. A. Hewitt. 1978. On the Late Precambrian- Early cambrian Hartshill Formation of Warwickshire. Geological Magazine 115(1):21-36 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10251: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 20.03.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
Micromitra sp.
Micromitra sp. Meek 1873
Coleoloides
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Coleoloides sp.
Coleoloides sp. Walcott 1890
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus sp.
Hyolithellus sp. Billings 1872
 Ichnofossils -
Planolites sp.
Planolites sp. Nicholson 1873