Tears Point, Unit 11: Ivorian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Zaphrentoididae
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Sychnoelasma konincki
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| ssp. konincki | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Antiphyllidae
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Fasciculophyllum densum
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Hapsiphyllidae
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Allotropiophyllum burringtonense
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Aulophyllidae
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Cyathoclisia tabernaculum
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Cyathopsidae
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Caninia cornucopiae
Michelin 1840
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Bothrophyllidae
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Caninophyllum patulum
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| ssp. greeni | ||||||||||
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Conodonta
- Ozarkodinida
- Polygnathidae
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Polygnathus mehli
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Pseudopolygnathus pinnatus
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Polygnathus communis
Branson and Mehl 1934
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| recombined as Neopolygnathus communis | ||||||||||
| ssp. communis | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Wales |
| Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 4.3° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 13.5° South, 1.1° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Tournaisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Tournaisian |
| *International age/stage: | Ivorian | ||
| Key time interval: | Ivorian | Zone: | Polygnathus mehli |
| Age range of interval: | 353.70000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Black Rock Limestone | ||
| Local section: | Tears Point | Local bed: | 11 |
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | dolomitic lithified "limestone" |
| Lithology description: upper portions of bed are dolomitic limestone, otherwise none given. | |
| Environment: | deep subtidal shelf |
| Geology comments: "Beds...were laid down in a continuous shelf environment." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils,some microfossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Rich brachiopod fauna has not been studied here. Forams include some or all of the following: Spinoendothyra mitchelli, Eblanaia michoti, Endothyra sp., cf. Earlandia moderata, and Spinobrunsiina ramsbottomi. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5883 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | M. Sommers | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-12-09 16:21:59 | Last modified: | 2000-01-07 09:41:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:29 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 371. | M. Mitchell, A. R. E. Strank, B. M. Thornbury and G. D. Sevastopulo. 1986. The distribution of platform conodonts, corals, and foraminifera from the Black Rock Limestone (late Tournaisian and early Visean) of Tears Point, Gower, south Wales. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 46:11-14 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen] |