Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 0.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Jenny Start Limestone Member (Combe Martin Slates Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; ooidal limestone and gray, silty, calcareous slate
Primary reference: E. A. Edmonds, A. Whittaker, and B. J. Williams. 1985. Geology of the country around Ilfracombe and Barnstaple (Memoirs of the British Geological Survey for 1:50000 sheets 277 and 293, new series) 1-97 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 38404: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Stromatoporoidea | |
Clathrodictyon sp. Nicholson and Murie 1878 stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
Thamnophyllum caespitosum horn coral | |
Disphyllum aequiseptatum horn coral | |
? Temnophyllum sp. Walther 1928 horn coral | |
? Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites spp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Alveolites suborbicularis Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora cervicornis tabulate coral
cf. Thamnopora cf. polyforata tabulate coral
Thamnopora cf. tumefacta tabulate coral | |
unclassified | |
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Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily |