Wetton Hill (East) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.1° N, 1.5° W: paleocoordinates 9.4° S, 0.7° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Milldale Limestone Formation, Chadian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: basinal (); lithified, gray lime mudstone

• consists predominantly of grey to pale-grey calcarenitic limestones...in much of the southwest...the limestones were deposited in deeper-water off-shelf environment and include large micritic mounds of chadian waulsortian type and asbian reef.

Primary reference: J. W. Tilsley. 1988. New data on Carboniferous (Dinantian) trilobites from the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 47:163-176 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5963: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 06.01.2000

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Taxonomic list

• Non-trilobites (aside from cephalopods) were not identified but listed as occurences. R = rare (< 5), P = present (5-20), C = common (> 20).
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Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Phillibolina worsawensis" = Archegonus (Phillibolina), Cyrtoproetus sp., "Phillibole cf. nitidus" = Proliobole nitida, Winterbergia hahnorum, Weania feltrimensis, Reediella reedi
"Phillibolina worsawensis" = Archegonus (Phillibolina) trilobite
Cyrtoproetus sp. Reed 1943 trilobite
sp. 1
"Phillibole cf. nitidus" = Proliobole nitida Holzapfel 1889 trilobite
Reediella reedi trilobite
 Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Brachymetopus maccoyi, Namuropyge decora
Brachymetopus maccoyi Portlock 1843 trilobite
Brachiopoda
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Brachiopoda indet.
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Maxigoniatitidae
Dzhaprakoceras sp.
Dzhaprakoceras sp. Popov 1965 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Rotopericyclidae
Rotopericyclus sp.
Rotopericyclus sp. Turner 1948 ammonite