Monyash area, Derbyshire, mud mounds (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Reef 271

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.2° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 4.6° S, 3.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Eyam Limestone Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Late Brigantian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; lithified wackestone

• mud mounds with pocket-like concentrations of brachiopods and molluscs

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: P. Gutteridge. 1990. The origin and significance of the distribution of shelly macrofauna in Late Dinantian carbonate mud mounds of Derbyshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 48(1):23-32 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 76172: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 15.11.2007

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bryozoa
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Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Cranaenidae
Girtyella sacculus Sowerby 1825
 Rhynchonellida - Pugnacidae
 Rhynchonellida - Stenoscismatidae
Coledium sp. Grant 1965
 Orthida -
Orthoidea indet. Woodward 1852
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Athyridida - Neoretziidae
 Spiriferida - Martiniidae
Martinia sp. M'Coy 1844
 Spiriferida -
 Spiriferida - Choristitidae
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus, "Spirifer cf. bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus
"Spirifer bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
"Spirifer cf. bisulcatus" = Angiospirifer bisulcatus Sowerby 1825
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
 Spiriferida - Brachythyrididae
 Spiriferida - Strophopleuridae
Fusella sp. M'Coy 1844
Strophomenata
 Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Rugosochonetes sp. Sokolskaja 1950
 Productida -
 Productida - Linoproductidae
Fluctuaria undata Defrance 1826
 Productida - Monticuliferidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Aulostegidae
Sinuatella sp. Muir-Wood 1928
Sinuatella cf. sinuata de Koninck 1851
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pinnidae
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria sp." = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) Hall 1883 oyster
 Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
 Pectinida - Heteropectinidae
 Arcida - Parallelodontidae
Parallelodon sp. Meek and Worthen 1866 clam
Rostroconchia
 Conocardiida - Conocardiidae
Conocardium sp. Bronn 1835
Trilobita
 Proetida - Phillipsiidae
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Diphyphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral