Ogmore by Sea, Horizon 43 (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

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)

• 26 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 5863: 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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Gastropoda
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Straparollus sp.
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella michelini
Rhipidomella michelini L'Eveille 1835
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Schellwienella cf. crenistria
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Delepinea (Daviesiella) destinezi, Megachonetes papilionaceus
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet.
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
encrusting bryozoan
Anthozoa
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Michelinia grandis
Michelinia grandis tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Rugosa -
Rugosa indet.
Rugosa indet. horn coral
giant caninioid
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia cornucopiae
Caninia cornucopiae Michelin 1840 horn coral