Also known as Reef 1217
Where: England, United Kingdom (50.5° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 32.6° S, 25.9° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Torquay Limestone Formation, Eifelian (393.3 - 387.7 Ma)
• thickness ca. 100m
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone
•Daddyhole Plain limestone block
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying
Primary reference: C.T. Scrutton. 1977. Facies variations in the Devonian limestones of eastern South Devon. Geological Magazine 114:165-248 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 81012: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 26.05.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
"Heliolites porosa" = Heliolites porosus
"Heliolites porosa" = Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Grypophyllum denkmanni, Acanthophyllum sp., Acanthophyllum cf. heterophyllum, Acanthophyllum heterophyllum
Grypophyllum denkmanni horn coral
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
Acanthophyllum cf. heterophyllum horn coral
Acanthophyllum heterophyllum horn coral | |
Stringophyllum buchelense horn coral
Stringophyllum isactis horn coral | |
Cyathophyllum (Peripaedium) cf. turbinatum horn coral | |
| |
Mesophyllum pseudoorthoceras, Mesophyllum cylindricum, Mesophyllum maximum, Mesophyllum cf. lissingenense
Mesophyllum pseudoorthoceras horn coral
Mesophyllum cylindricum horn coral
Mesophyllum maximum horn coral | |
Cystiphylloides sp. Chapman 1893 horn coral | |
Calceola sandalina Linnaeus 1771 horn coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stachyodes sp. Bargatzky 1881 stromatoporoid sponge |