Swinden Quarry 4, reef core, RBH17 (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: United Kingdom (54.1° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.3° S, 2.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Bowland Shale Formation, Asbian to Asbian (340.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• late Asbian to early Brigantian

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone and shale

• reef core
• boulder bed of limestone clasts with a black shale matrix occurs with a steep margin against black shales

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Lumps information from 11 samples locations, not subdivided in table

Primary reference: C. N. Waters, R. B. Haslam, P. Cózar, I. D. Somerville, D. Millward and M. Woods. 2017. Mississippian reef development in the Cracoe Limestone Formation of the southern Askrigg Block, North Yorkshire, UK. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 185558: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Mihaela Krause on 28.04.2017

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Percentage data refers to percent of localities where taxon was recorded
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Stacheinaceae
  - Stacheinaceae
Epistacheoides sp.
Epistacheoides sp. Petryk and Mamet 1972
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales -
Koninckopora minuta, Koninckopora tenuiramosa, Koninckopora inflata
Koninckopora inflata de Koninck 1842
Foraminifera
  -
? Koskinobigenerina sp.
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
Omphalotis frequentata, Endothyra sp., Endothyranopsis compressa, Endothyranopsis crassa, Endothyranopsis sp.
 Fusulinina - Pseudolituotubidae
Pseudolituotuba gravata
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
Earlandia minima, Earlandia moderata
 Fusulinina - Pseudoammodiscidae
Pseudoammodiscus sp.
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp.
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
 Tetrataxoidea - Valvulinellidae
Valvulinella youngi
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
? Nodasperodiscus sp., Archaediscus sp., Archaediscus ex gr. karreri
Cyanophyceae
  - Aphralysiaceae
Aphralysia sp.
Aphralysia sp. Garwood 1914