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
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 | |
Dielasma sp. King 1856 | |
Bryozoa | |
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831 | |
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
Bivalvia indet. Linnaeus 1758 clam | |
Anthozoa | |
Lithostrotion sp. Fleming 1828 horn coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge | |
Cyanophyceae | |
Ortonella sp. Garwood 1914 | |
Florideophyceae | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Ungdarella sp. Maslov 1956 | |
Stacheinaceae | |
Epistacheoides sp. Petryk and Mamet 1972 | |
Chlorophyceae | |
Koninckopora sp. Lee 1912 | |
Ulvophyceae | |
Polymorphocodium sp. Derville 1931 |