Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.5° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.7° S, 0.2° E)
• 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)
• 38 m above base
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal packstone and 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 5860: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 07.12.1999
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
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"Hapsiphyllum (Zaphrentis) konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense
"Hapsiphyllum (Zaphrentis) konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense Mitchell and Somerville 1988 horn coral sgn. (Zaphrentis)
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Caninia cornucopiae Michelin 1840 horn coral | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Michelinia grandis tabulate coral | |
Gastropoda | |
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Rhipidomella michelini L'Eveille 1835 | |
Strophomenata | |
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