Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 13.5° S, 1.1° W)
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Polygnathus mehli zone, Black Rock Limestone Formation, Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, dolomitic limestone
Primary reference: M. Mitchell, A. R. E. Strank, B. M. Thornbury and G. D. Sevastopulo. 1986. The distribution of platform conodonts, corals, and foraminifera from the Black Rock Limestone (late Tournaisian and early Visean) of Tears Point, Gower, south Wales. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 46:11-14 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 5890: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 09.12.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Conodonta | |
Spathognathodus stabilis conodont | |
Hindeodus cristulus conodont | |
Protognathodus cordiformis conodont
Gnathodus sp. conodont | |
Pseudopolygnathus cf. pinnatus conodont
Polygnathus mehli conodont | |
Anthozoa | |
| |
Fasciculophyllum densum horn coral
Fasciculophyllum omaliusi horn coral | |
Cyathoclisia ? tabernaculum horn coral | |
Caninia cornucopiae Michelin 1840 horn coral | |
| |
Michelinia cf. konincki tabulate coral |