Manifold Valley, Wetton Hill, Loc. B (Float) (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.1° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 8.2° S, 0.8° E)

When: C2S1 zone, Waterhouses Limestone Formation, Chadian to Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• AGE IS EQUIVOCAL: "Our view...is to favour [the suggestion] that these rocks are of C2S1 age and the brachiopods here described tend to support that..." "Some species...are more typical of D strata...2 species compared w/ N. Amer. forms...are all commonly found in the Kinderhook and Osage, equivalent to the Tournaisian."

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified limestone

• bedded limestones, with variable dips, overlaid by obscurely bedded 'reefal' limestones...

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: C. H. C. Brunton and C. Champion. 1974. A Lower Carboniferous brachiopod fauna from the Manifold Valley, Staffordshire. Palaeontology 17(4):811-840 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5511: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 08.10.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Listed as found, but not specific to location, are "corallites of Cladochonus, a few gastropods, crinoid ossicles and plates, echinoid spines, small bryozoan fragments."
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Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris nastus n. sp.
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Fusella rhomboidea
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina fimbriata
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
Hustedia cf. radialis
 Spiriferinida - Spiriferellinidae
Spiriferellina perplicata
 Rhynchonellida - Lambdarinidae
Lambdarina manifoldensis
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Coledium seminulum
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Girtyella saccula