Dunald Mill Quarry, Carnforth, palaeoberesellid-cementstone buildup (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Reef 429

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.1° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 5.8° S, 0.9° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Urswick Limestone Formation, Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• upper part of the formation, Late Asbian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified limestone and lithified packstone

• core facies: tan to pale brown Kamaella-peloidal cementstone, flanking facies: crinoid-bryozoan dominated packstone to grainstone, conglomeratic subfacies

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Collection methods: quarrying, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: A. D. Horbury. 1992. A Late Dinantian peloid cementstone-palaeoberesellid buildup from North Lancashire, England. Sedimentary Geology 79:117-137 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76085: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 13.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
Dielasma sp. King 1856
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
  -
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion sp. Fleming 1828 horn coral
Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge
Cyanophyceae
  - Garwoodiaceae
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914
Florideophyceae
 Corallinales - Corallinophycidae
Rhodophyceae
 Florideae -
Ungdarella sp. Maslov 1956
Stacheinaceae
  - Stacheinaceae
Epistacheoides sp. Petryk and Mamet 1972
Chlorophyceae
 Dasycladales - Beresellaceae
 Dasycladales -
Ulvophyceae
 Bryopsidales - Udoteaceae
 Bryopsidales - Codiaceae
Polymorphocodium sp. Derville 1931