Where: England, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 7.0° S, 1.6° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: D1 zone, lower reef limestones Member (Carboniferous Limestone Formation), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified, fine-grained, red, white lime mudstone and lithified, dolomitic, sandy reef rocks
Primary reference: J. E. Prentice. 1951. The Carboniferous Limestone of the Manifold Valley region, north Staffordshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 106:171-209 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 6067: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 21.01.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Ostracoda | |
Entomoconchus scouleri ostracod | |
Bivalvia | |
"Leiopteria hirundo" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria hirundo" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
Aviculopecten plicatus scallop | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria resupinata Martin 1809 | |
Strophomenata | |
Schellwienella crenistria McIntosh 1974 | |