Weaver Hills District, Cauldon Low Limestone (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

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

• 300 feet of light coloured, thickly bedded limestones...light grey in colour with a conchoidal fracture...higher beds...are not so thickly bedded and in which shale partings occur.

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

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora ramulosa tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Verbeekiellidae
 Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia gigantea horn coral
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus coralloides Sowerby 1814 horn coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalidae sp. White 1877 snail
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontoidea spp. M'Coy 1851 snail
 Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
"Bellerophon cornuarietis" = Teutonophon tangentialis
"Bellerophon cornuarietis" = Teutonophon tangentialis Phillips 1836 snail
 Neritoidea - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844 snail
Chondrichthyes
 Cochliodontiformes - Psephodontidae
Psephodus magnus Agassiz 1843 chimaera