#122, Brownend quarry, Waterhouses (Ivorian) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (52.8° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 11.9° S, 0.0° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: C1 zone, Cementstone series Member (Carboniferous Limestone Formation), Ivorian (353.8 - 346.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, ferruginous, shelly/skeletal, gray, cherty/siliceous mudstone and limestone

• very fine-grained rock with conchoidal fracture and semi-translucent aspect. pasty-grey when dry, black when wet. appears to be highly siliceous mudstone. important constituents fresh feldspar, quartz, limonite, chlorite. beds 1 - 3', seperated by black shaly partings. beds of black chert. occasional impersistent beds of detrital limestone.

Primary reference: J. E. Prentice. 1951. The Carboniferous Limestone of the Manifold Valley region, north Staffordshire. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society 106:171-209 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8176: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 27.06.2000

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Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
"Productus (Plicatifera) cf. mesolobus" = Plicatifera
"Productus (Plicatifera) cf. mesolobus" = Plicatifera
sgn. (Plicatifera)
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Schizophoria nuda