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
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unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
Eoparastaffella simplex Vdovenko 1954 | |
Anthozoa | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Siphonophyllia cf. garwoodi horn coral | |
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 horn coral
Koninckophyllum cf. vesciulosum horn coral
Koninckophyllum sp. Thomson and Nicholson 1876 horn coral | |
Haplolasma cf. densa horn coral | |
"Lithostrotion martini" = Siphonodendron martini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851 horn coral
Dorlodotia briarti horn coral
Lithostrotion sociale horn coral | |
Strophomenata | |
Overtonia fimbriata Sowerby 1824 | |