Heatherslade Bay, Horizon 19 (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, lagoonal facies Member (High Tor Limestone Formation), Arundian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• 67 m above base

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, silty lime mudstone

• Paleoenvironment should be carbonate lagoonal
• 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 5840: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.12.1999, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• Crinoids not identified.
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835
Gastropoda
 Caenogastropoda - Orthonematidae
Aclisina sp. de Koninck 1881 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontida indet. Ulrich and Scofield 1897 snail
Bellerophon sp. and Euphemites sp.
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Mourlonia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail
 Murchisoniina -
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail
Cephalopoda
 Nautilida -
Nautilida indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
nautiloid, straight shelled
Anthozoa
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet. horn coral
giant caninioid