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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Strophomenata | |
Eomarginifera longispinus Sowerby 1814 | |
Linoproductus cora d'Orbigny 1842 | |
Schellwienella crenistria McIntosh 1974 | |
Chonetes sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Reticularia sp. Frederiks 1915 | |
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825 | |
Schizophoria resupinata Martin 1809 | |
Gastropoda | |
"Naticopsis ampliata" = Marmolatella ampliata
"Naticopsis ampliata" = Marmolatella ampliata Phillips 1836 snail | |
Euomphalus pentangulatus Sowerby 1814 snail | |
Anthozoa | |
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"Zaphrentis enniskilleni" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis enniskilleni" = Zaphrenthis horn coral | |
Fasciculophyllum sp. Thomson 1883 horn coral | |
Caninia vesicularis horn coral |