Shunner Fell Well (SD 843970), Great Shunner Fell (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.4° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.8° S, 6.0° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shunner Fell Limestone Formation, Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)

• massive limestone beds; see Fig. 1

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone

• massive in the centre, but laminated above and below, where the bedding surfaces are wavy. It is pale blue-grey when fresh, but buff-weathern on the outer surface. Thin-sections show this rock to be a fine grainstone, with much organic detritus, and with about 10% angular quartz grains.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: E.N.K. Clarkson and X.-g. Zhang. 1991. Ontogeny of the Carboniferous trilobite Paladin eichwaldi shunnerensis (King 1914). Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 82(4):277-295 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 67683: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 04.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Complete list given by Rowell & Scanlon 1957 p. 36
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unclassified
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Derbia gigantea, Derbia hindi
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Zaphrentites breviseptum, Zaphrentites constrictus, Zaphrentites disjunctus, Zaphrentites parallelus, Zaphrentites shunnerensis
Zaphrentites breviseptum horn coral
given as Z. sp., but several Zaphrentites species recorded by Hudson (1944) and Chubb & Hudson (1925) are listed separately.
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida -
Cycloceras sp.
Cycloceras sp. M'Coy 1844
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Tylonautilus nodiferus
 Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Anthracoceras sensu lato glabrum
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida - Euphemitidae
"Euphemus sp." = Euphemites
"Euphemus sp." = Euphemites Warthin 1930 snail
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia membranacea
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella membranacea
Fenestella membranacea
given as F. sp., but F. membranacea recorded by Hudson (1944) and Chubb & Hudson (1925) are listed separately.
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula squamiformis" = Lingularia squamiformis
"Lingula squamiformis" = Lingularia squamiformis Phillips 1836
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella sp.
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Composita sp., Athyris cf. expansa, Athyris globularis, Actinoconchus sp., "Cleiothyridina royssii" = Cleiothyridina deroissyi
Composita sp. Brown 1849
Athyris globularis Phillips 1835
"Cleiothyridina royssii" = Cleiothyridina deroissyi Leveille 1835
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Spirifer cf. bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer cf. bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Spirifer sp.
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
 Spiriferida - Elythidae
Phricodothyris sp.
Phricodothyris sp. George 1932
Strophomenata
 Productida - Araksalosiidae
Chonetipustula cf. caringtoniana
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Pustula elegans
 Productida - Productellidae
Argentiproductus margaritaceus, Productus cf. carbonarius, Eomarginifera cf. lobata, "Eomarginifera aff. longispina" = Eomarginifera longispinus
Productus cf. carbonarius de Koninck 1842
"Eomarginifera aff. longispina" = Eomarginifera longispinus Sowerby 1814
 Productida - Productidae
Dictyoclostus cf. sulcatus
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes cf. laguessiana
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
"Paladin shunnerensis" = Paladin eichwaldi shunnerensis
"Paladin shunnerensis" = Paladin eichwaldi shunnerensis King 1914 trilobite