Weaver Hills District, Lower Waterhouses Limestone (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.0° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 6.7° S, 1.6° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: D1 zone, Waterhouses Limestone Formation, Asbian (339.4 - 336.0 Ma)

• Up to 500' thick. Lower portions 400 - 450' thick.

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• local base massive pure unfossiliferous. above, crinoidal well-bedded limestones, with occassional black shales, passing in places into reef limestones. the lowest beds contain a few cherts and the fossils are often silicified.

Preservation: replaced with silica

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 5985: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.01.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus coralloides Sowerby 1814 horn coral
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Koninckophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum cf. bipartitum McCoy 1849 horn coral
Clisiophyllum keyserlingi McCoy 1849 horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentidae
"Zaphrentis cf. disjuncta" = Zaphrenthis, "Zaphrentis enniskilleni" = Zaphrenthis
"Zaphrentis cf. disjuncta" = Zaphrenthis horn coral
"Zaphrentis enniskilleni" = Zaphrenthis horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
"Lithostrotion martini" = Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
Lithostrotion junceum Fabre 1955 horn coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Michelinia tenuisepta tabulate coral
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina -
Murchisonioidea indet. Koken 1896 snail
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia glabra Sowerby 1821
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Lingulata
 Discinida - Disciniidae
Discina nitida Phillips 1836
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae