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: upper Polygnathus varcus + lower Polygnathus asymmetricus conodont zone, Barton Member (Torquay Limestone Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)
• Upper Polygnathus varcus to lower asymmetricus zone.
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: reef, buildup or bioherm; 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 81021: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Falko Reichel on 26.05.2008, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826 tabulate coral | |
Alveolites sp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora sp. Steininger 1831 tabulate coral | |
Macgeea sp. Webster 1889 horn coral | |
Haplothecia pengellyi horn coral | |
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Sociophyllum sp. Birenheide 1962 horn coral | |
Acanthophyllum concavum horn coral
? Grypophyllum sp. Wedekind 1922 horn coral | |
Gastropoda | |
"? Capulus invictus n. sp." = Platyostoma invictus1
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"Capulus puellaris" = Orthonychia puellaris1
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