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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia | |
Aviculopecten sp. M'Coy 1851 scallop | |
Rostroconchia | |
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835 | |
Gastropoda | |
Aclisina sp. de Koninck 1881 snail | |
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail | |
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Mourlonia sp. de Koninck 1883 snail | |
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail | |
Cephalopoda | |
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Anthozoa | |
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