Weaver Hills District, Forest Hollow beds (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 8.0° S, 0.8° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: S2 zone, Forest Hollow Beds Formation, Holkerian (346.7 - 340.0 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone and shale

• crinoidal limestones interbedded with cemenstones, thinnly bedded flaggy limestones with some shales.

Primary reference: A. Ludford. 1951. The stratigraphy of the Carboniferous rocks of the Weaver Hills District, North Staffordshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 106:211-229 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5984: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.01.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Strophomenata
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus cora d'Orbigny 1842
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Reticulariidae
Reticularia sp. Frederiks 1915
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
 Spiriferinida - Davidsoninidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Gastropoda
 Neritoina - Delphinulopsidae
"Naticopsis ampliata" = Marmolatella ampliata
"Naticopsis ampliata" = Marmolatella ampliata Phillips 1836 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Euomphalus pentangulatus Sowerby 1814 snail
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Clisiophyllum keyserlingi McCoy 1849 horn coral
var. rigidum
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
"Zaphrentis enniskilleni" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis enniskilleni" = Zaphrenthis horn coral
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Fasciculophyllum sp. Thomson 1883 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae