Also known as Reef 428

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

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Goniatites moorei - Goniatites crenistria ammonoid zone, Cracoe Limestone Formation, Asbian to Asbian (340.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Reef growth started in late Holkerian and lastet into earliest Brigantian. PJW: This is between the Malham formation and Pendleside Limestone. It is now considered to be it's own rock unit, the Cracoe Limestone (formerly Cracoe Reef).

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified framestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: original calcite

Collection methods: bulk, peel or thin section,

• Lumps information from 11 samples locations, not subdivided in table

Primary reference: D.J.C. Mundy. 1994. Microbialite-sponge-bryozoan-coral framestones in Lower Carboniferous (Late Visean) buildups of northern England (UK). in: Embry, A.F., Beauchamp, B., Glass, D.J. (eds): Pangea: Global Environments and Resources. Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists Memoir 17:713-729 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 28383: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Wolfgang Kiessling on 11.02.2003, edited by Carl Simpson, Uta Merkel and Matthew Clapham

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