Daddyhole Block, Torquay, Bay Reef Complex, (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Reef 1217

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.5° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 25.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Torquay Limestone Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)

• thickness ca. 100m

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• dark, well bedded, micritic liemstone

•Daddyhole Plain limestone block

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying

Primary reference: C.T. Scrutton. 1977. Facies variations in the Devonian limestones of eastern South Devon. Geological Magazine 114:165-248 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 81012: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 26.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp.
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp.
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
Coenites sp.
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora sp.
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
"Heliolites porosa" = Heliolites porosus
"Heliolites porosa" = Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum (Peripaedium) cf. turbinatum
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Grypophyllum denkmanni, Acanthophyllum sp., Acanthophyllum cf. heterophyllum, Acanthophyllum heterophyllum
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Stringophyllum buchelense, Stringophyllum isactis
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Thamnophyllum germanicum
Thamnophyllum germanicum horn coral
schouppei
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
Mesophyllum pseudoorthoceras, Mesophyllum cylindricum, Mesophyllum maximum, Mesophyllum cf. lissingenense
 Cystiphyllida - Goniophyllidae
Calceola sandalina
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral
 Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Cystiphylloides sp.
Cystiphylloides sp. Chapman 1893 horn coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes sp.
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge
Stromatoporoidea
 Syringostromatida - Stachyoditidae
Stachyodes sp.
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge