Spring Quarry, type locality (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Wales, United Kingdom (53.1° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 9.2° S, 0.3° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spring Quarry Limestone Formation, Arundian (345.0 - 342.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, ooidal, gray packstone and grainstone

• 40 m of cream and pale grey massive limestone...medium grained packstones with occassional coarser grainstones., contain abundant forams, micritized bioclasts, peloids many of which have oolitic coatings.

Primary reference: I. D. Somerville and A. R. E. Strank. 1984. Discovery of Arundian and Holkerian faunas from a Dinantian platform succession in North Wales. Geological Journal 19:85-104 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6009: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 14.01.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
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 Fusulinoidea - Ozawainellidae
 Archaediscacea - Archaediscidae
Anthozoa
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
 Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
Koninckophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
"Lithostrotion martini" = Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
Dorlodotia briarti horn coral
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
 Productida - Productellidae
Overtonia fimbriata Sowerby 1824
 Productida - Monticuliferidae