Where: England, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 9.5° S, 0.5° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: C2 zone, Cauldon Low Limestone Formation, Chadian (345.3 - 345.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, gray, argillaceous limestone
Primary reference: A. Ludford. 1951. The stratigraphy of the Carboniferous rocks of the Weaver Hills District, North Staffordshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 106:211-229 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5970: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.01.2000, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Syringopora ramulosa tabulate coral | |
Cravenia lamellata horn coral | |
Lophophyllum meathopense horn coral | |
Caninia gigantea horn coral | |
Amplexus coralloides Sowerby 1814 horn coral | |
Strophomenata | |
Schellwienella crenistria McIntosh 1974 | |
Gastropoda | |
Euomphalidae sp. White 1877 snail | |
Bellerophontoidea spp. M'Coy 1851 snail | |
"Bellerophon cornuarietis" = Teutonophon tangentialis
"Bellerophon cornuarietis" = Teutonophon tangentialis Phillips 1836 snail | |
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail | |
Chondrichthyes | |
Psephodus magnus Agassiz 1843 chimaera |