Heatherslade Bay, Horizon 7 (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.6° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 0.4° W)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: C2S1 beds of Caninia Zone zone, standard facies Member (High Tor Limestone Formation), Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• 35 m above base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and lime mudstone

• standard facies: richly fossiliferous coarse-grained crinoidal limestone, thin- to thick-bedded...specific lithologies include wackestone, packstone, and grainstone. thin lime mudstone beds occur at various intervals.

lagoonal facies: lime mudstone.

Collection methods: surface (in situ),

Primary reference: S. S. Beus. 1984. Fossil associations in the High Tor Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 58(3):651-667 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5828: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.12.1999

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Crinoids not identified.
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Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
giant caninioid
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia sp.
Palaeosmilia sp. Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
"Hapsiphyllum (Zaphrentis) konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense
"Hapsiphyllum (Zaphrentis) konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense Mitchell and Somerville 1988 horn coral
sgn. (Zaphrentis)
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia cornucopiae
Caninia cornucopiae Michelin 1840 horn coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontida indet.
Bellerophontida indet. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bellerophon sp. and Euphemites sp.
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Delepinea (Daviesiella) destinezi