Park Gate Quarry, scree at East End, Tawstock (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.0° N, 4.1° W: paleocoordinates 11.8° S, 0.5° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Codden Hill Chert Formation, Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• Overlies the Doddiscombe Formation (Unit D of the Pilton Beds of Prentice 1960). Underlies Dowhills Mudstone Formation.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; mudstone

• Lower half (Tawstock Formation of Jackson, 1991) comprises thin- to medium-bedded pale and dark grey siliceous mudstones, shaly mudstones and cherts. Upper half (Hearson and Rubble Hills formations of Jackson, 1991) comprises thin- to medium-bedded limestones, turbidites and mudstones with streaky laminated cherts in the uppermost part. Two thin tuffs are present and Pectinoid bivalves are common in the upper half. Facies variations mapped on Sheet 293 (Barnstaple) by Edmonds et al (1985) have been shown by Jackson (1991) to be illusory and due to faulting resulting in stratigraphic omissions. Similarly a facies recognised by Prentice (1960) in the Fremington area and dominated by limestones and mudstones has been shown by Jackson (1991) to be the upper half of the Formation with the lower half thrust out.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. M. Owens and M. G. Bassett. 1995. Catalogue of Type, Figured and Cited Fossils in the National Museum of Wales: Supplement 1971-1994. National Museum Wales. Geological Series 12:1-250 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 216429: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 12.12.2020

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Taxonomic list

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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Spatulina spatulata" = Spatulata spatulata, Wagnerispina coddonensis
"Spatulina spatulata" = Spatulata spatulata Woodward 1902 trilobite
Wagnerispina coddonensis Woodward 1902 trilobite