Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 14.7° S, 0.3° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Black Rock Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)
• bed is 33 feet thick, top of bed is 606 feet above base of section
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, black, gray limestone
Preservation: replaced with silica
Collection methods: abundant silicified fossils
Primary reference: G. W. Green, M. A. Welch, and F. B. A. Welch. 1965. Geology of the Country around Wells and Cheddar (Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheet 280, New Series). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (280)1-225 [A. Miller/D. Carlson/O. Alfaro]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8733: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 28.08.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
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"Productus (Dictyoclostus) sp." = Dictyoclostus
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Rhynchonellata | |
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Anthozoa | |
"Zaphrentis konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense
"Zaphrentis konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense Mitchell and Somerville 1988 horn coral 'Zaphrentis' konincki
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Fasciculophyllum aff. ambiguum horn coral
Fasciculophyllum densum horn coral
Fasciculophyllum cf. omaliusi horn coral | |
Cyathoclisia tabernaculum horn coral | |
Koninckophyllum tortuosum horn coral | |
Caninia cornucopiae Michelin 1840 horn coral | |
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Cyathaxonia cornu Michelin 1846 horn coral | |
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral | |
Michelinia sp. de Koninck 1841 tabulate coral | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral |