Black Rock Limestone from Burrington Combe, Bed 10, Lower Carboniferous, (Middle: Tournaisian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa
- Favositida
- Micheliniidae
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Michelinia megastoma
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Michelinia cf. megastoma
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zeta, subscript 2 | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Cyathaxoniidae
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Cyathaxonia cornu
Michelin 1846
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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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closely septate form | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Amplexidae
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Amplexus sp.
Sowerby 1814
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? Amplexus aff. cravenesis
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A.? or Amplexocarinia aff. cravenesis | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Zaphrentoididae
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Zaphrentis konincki
Vaughan 1908
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synonym of Sychnoelasma hawbankense | ||||||||||
'Z.' konincki forma typica and 'Z.' konincki [between forma alpha and forma typica] | ||||||||||
Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Antiphyllidae
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Fasciculophyllum densum
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Fasciculophyllum omaliusi
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Hapsiphyllidae
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Allotropiophyllum cf. burringtonensis
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Verbeekiellidae
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Cravenia aff. tela
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Euomphalidae
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Straparollus sp.
de Montfort 1810
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
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Bellerophon sp.
de Montfort 1808
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= Bellerophontoidea indet.
M'Coy 1851
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Wagner 2023 | |||||||||
unclassified
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Bryozoa indet.
Ehrenberg 1831
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polyzoan | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Athyridida
- Athyrididae
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Cleiothyridina ? sp.
Buckman 1906
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Schizophoriidae
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Schizophoria ? sp.
King 1850
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Schizophoria resupinata
(Martin 1809)
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferinida
- Syringothyrididae
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Syringothyris cf. reticulata
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Syringothyris sp.
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S. sp. and theta | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
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Spiriferidina indet.
Waagen 1883
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smooth spiriferid | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Spiriferidae
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Spirifer sp.
Sowerby 1818
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Unispirifer tornacensis
(de Koninck 1883)
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recombined as Atylephorus tornacensis | ||||||||||
Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Mucrospiriferidae
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Tylothyris cf. laminosa
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Rafinesquinidae
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Leptaena analoga
(Phillips 1836)
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recombined as Leptagonia analoga | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Chonetidae
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Chonetes (Rugosochonetes) sp.
Fischer de Waldheim 1830
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C. (Rugosochonetes) | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productidae
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Productus (Dictyoclostus) aff. vaughani
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original and current combination Dictyoclostus | ||||||||||
P. (Dictyoclostus) aff. vaughani | ||||||||||
Productus (Dictyoclostus) sp.
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original and current combination Dictyoclostus | ||||||||||
P. (Dictyoclostus) sp. | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Productida
- Echinoconchidae
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Productus (Pustula) cf. tenuipustulosus
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original and current combination Pustula | ||||||||||
P. (Pustula) cf. tenuipustulosus | ||||||||||
Strophomenata
- Orthotetida
- Pulsiidae
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Schellwienella aspis
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Somerset |
Coordinates: | 51.3° North, 2.7° West (view map) | ||||
Paleocoordinates: | 14.7° South, 0.3° West | ||||
Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||||
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
Stage: | Tournaisian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1 |
*Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Middle Tournaisian - Late/Upper Tournaisian |
Key time interval: | Tournaisian | ||
Age range of interval: | 358.90000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago | ||
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Formation: | Black Rock Limestone | ||||
Local section: | Burrington Combe | Local bed: | 10 | ||
Regional order: | bottom to top | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: bed is 40 feet thick; top of bed is 346 feet above the base of the section |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | shelly/skeletal,black,gray "limestone" |
Lithology description: black and dark grey rather rubbly crinoidal limestone | |
Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,replaced with silica |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes: | difficult macrofossils |
Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Taxonomic list comments:No crinoid identifications are made in the list but the rock is described as a "crinoidal limestone" |
Metadata
Database number: | 8709 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Miller, P. Wagner | Enterer: | D. Carlson, P. Wagner |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
Created: | 2000-08-28 07:44:11 | Last modified: | 2019-06-17 23:54:48 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-08-28 07:44:11 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
681. | 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] |
Secondary references:
9042 | P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |