Weaver Hills District, Cauldon Low Limestone: Chadian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Chondrichthyes - Cochliodontiformes - Psephodontidae
Psephodus magnus (Agassiz 1843)
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes cf. comoides
Chonetes papilionacea
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Anopliidae
Airtonia ? hudsoni
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Schellwienella crenistria McIntosh 1974
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Plicatifera humerosa
Gastropoda - Naticopsidae
Naticopsis sp. M'Coy 1844
Gastropoda - Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalus sp. Sowerby 1814
    = Euomphalidae sp. White 1877
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida
Bellerophon spp.
    = Bellerophontoidea spp.
Wagner 2023
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida - Bellerophontidae
Bellerophon cornuarietis d'Orbigny 1850
synonym of Teutonophon tangentialis
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus coralloides Sowerby 1814
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia gigantea
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Verbeekiellidae
Cravenia lamellata
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Lophophyllum meathopense
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora ramulosa
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Staffordshire
Coordinates: 53.0° North, 1.9° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:9.5° South, 0.5° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous *Epoch:Visean
*International age/stage:Chadian
Key time interval:Chadian Zone: C2
Age range of interval:346.70000 - 340.20000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Cauldon Low Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified argillaceous "limestone"
Lithology description: 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.
Environment:shallow subtidal indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:5970
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-01-07 15:04:16 Last modified:2001-08-16 13:10:36
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
380. 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]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]