The Walls Hill Limestone, Torquay, Bay Reef Complex, Lummation Quarries (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Reef 1218

Where: England, United Kingdom (50.5° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 29.1° 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 81020: 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
 Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae
Mesophyllum sp.
Mesophyllum sp. Schlüter 1889 horn coral
 Stauriida - Disphyllidae
Hexagonaria sp.
Hexagonaria sp. Gürich 1896 horn coral
 Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Acanthophyllum concavum
 Stauriida - Stringophyllidae
Sociophyllum cf. semiseptatum, Sociophyllum sp., Stringophyllum normale
Sociophyllum sp. Birenheide 1962 horn coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
Favosites sp.
Favosites sp. Lamarck 1816 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
Caliapora battersbyi
Caliapora battersbyi tabulate coral
 Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
"Heliolites porosa" = Heliolites porosus
"Heliolites porosa" = Heliolites porosus Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral