Weaver Hills District, Forest Hollow beds: Holkerian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Hettonia fallax
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Chonetidae
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Chonetes papilionacaea
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Chonetes sp.
Fischer de Waldheim 1830
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Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Pulsiidae
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Schellwienella crenistria
McIntosh 1974
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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Eomarginifera longispinus
(Sowerby 1814)
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productidae
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Dictyoclostus multispiniferus
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Linoproductidae
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Linoproductus cora
(d'Orbigny 1842)
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferinida
- Davidsoninidae
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Davidsonina carbonaria
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Choristitidae
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Spirifer bisulcatus
Sowerby 1825
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| recombined as Angiospirifer bisulcatus | ||||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Reticulariidae
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Reticularia sp.
Frederiks 1915
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Schizophoriidae
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Schizophoria resupinata
(Martin 1809)
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Gastropoda
- Cycloneritida
- Delphinulopsidae
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Naticopsis ampliata
(Phillips 1836)
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| recombined as Marmolatella ampliata | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Euomphalidae
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Euomphalus pentangulatus
Sowerby 1814
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Cyathopsidae
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Caninia vesicularis
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Zaphrentidae
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Zaphrentis enniskilleni
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| synonym of Zaphrenthis | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Aulophyllidae
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Clisiophyllum keyserlingi
McCoy 1849
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| var. rigidum | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Antiphyllidae
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Fasciculophyllum sp.
Thomson 1883
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Staffordshire |
| Coordinates: | 52.8° North, 2.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 8.0° South, 0.8° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
| 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: | Holkerian | ||
| Key time interval: | Holkerian | Zone: | S2 |
| Age range of interval: | 346.70000 - 340.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Forest Hollow Beds |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone" |
| Secondary lithology: | "shale" |
| Lithology description: crinoidal limestones interbedded with cemenstones, thinnly bedded flaggy limestones with some shales. | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5984 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers |
| Modifier: | C. Visaggi | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-01-11 14:43:48 | Last modified: | 2004-03-11 16:25:06 |
| 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] |