The Walls Hill Limestone, Torquay, Bay Reef Complex, Long Quarry Point (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Reef 1218

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.5° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.2° S, 21.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Torquay Limestone Formation, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• Overlaying the Daddyhole Limestone

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; limestone

• massive, pale-gray, white-weathering limestone

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 81014: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 26.05.2008

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Anthozoa
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Heliolites sp.
Heliolites sp. Dana 1846 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Alveolites sp., Caliapora battersbyi
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral
Caliapora battersbyi tabulate coral
 Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp.
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral
 Stauriida - Siphonophrentidae
Siphonophrentis sp.
Siphonophrentis sp. O'Connell 1914 horn coral
 Stauriida - Stauriidae
Dendrostella sp.
Dendrostella sp. Glinski 1957 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum sp., Acanthophyllum concavum
Acanthophyllum sp. Dybowski 1873 horn coral
 Stauriida - Spongophyllidae
Spongophyllum kunthi
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Stringophyllum sp., Sociophyllum sp.
Stringophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral
Sociophyllum sp. Birenheide 1962 horn coral
 Stauriida - Cyathophyllidae
Cyathophyllum (Peripaedium) turbinatum, Cyathophyllum (Cyathophyllum) spongiosum
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Thamnophyllum sp.
Thamnophyllum sp. Penecke 1894 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Hexagonaria sp., Disphyllum sp.
Hexagonaria sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral
Disphyllum sp. Fromentel 1861 horn coral
Stromatoporoidea
 Amphiporida - Amphiporidae
Amphipora sp.
Amphipora sp. Schulz 1883 stromatoporoid sponge