Black Rock Limestone from Burrington Combe, Bed 10, Lower Carboniferous, (Middle (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.3° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 14.7° S, 0.3° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Black Rock Limestone Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• bed is 40 feet thick; top of bed is 346 feet above the base of the section

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shelly/skeletal, black, gray limestone

• black and dark grey rather rubbly crinoidal limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: replaced with silica

Primary reference: G. W. Green, M. A. Welch, and F. B. A. Welch. 1965. Geology of the Country around Wells and Cheddar (Explanation of One-inch Geological Sheet 280, New Series). Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain (280)1-225 [A. Miller/D. Carlson/O. Alfaro]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8709: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 28.08.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• No crinoid identifications are made in the list but the rock is described as a "crinoidal limestone"
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Verbeekiellidae
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus sp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
? Amplexus aff. cravenesis horn coral
A.? or Amplexocarinia aff. cravenesis
 Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
Cyathaxonia cornu Michelin 1846 horn coral
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
"Zaphrentis konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense
"Zaphrentis konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense Mitchell and Somerville 1988 horn coral
'Z.' konincki forma typica and 'Z.' konincki [between forma alpha and forma typica]
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
 Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
 Stauriida - Bothrophyllidae
Caninophyllum patulum horn coral
closely septate form
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia cornucopiae Michelin 1840 horn coral
 Favositida - Micheliniidae
Michelinia megastoma tabulate coral
Michelinia cf. megastoma tabulate coral
zeta, subscript 2
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
 Euomphalina - Euomphalidae
Straparollus sp. de Montfort 1810 snail
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes (Rugosochonetes) sp. Fischer de Waldheim 1830
C. (Rugosochonetes)
 Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga
"Leptaena analoga" = Leptagonia analoga Phillips 1836
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
"Productus (Pustula) cf. tenuipustulosus" = Pustula
"Productus (Pustula) cf. tenuipustulosus" = Pustula
P. (Pustula) cf. tenuipustulosus
 Productida - Productidae
"Productus (Dictyoclostus) aff. vaughani" = Dictyoclostus, "Productus (Dictyoclostus) sp." = Dictyoclostus
"Productus (Dictyoclostus) aff. vaughani" = Dictyoclostus
P. (Dictyoclostus) aff. vaughani
"Productus (Dictyoclostus) sp." = Dictyoclostus
P. (Dictyoclostus) sp.
Rhynchonellata
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
 Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
 Spiriferida -
Spiriferidina indet. Waagen 1883
smooth spiriferid
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
"Unispirifer tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis, Spirifer sp.
"Unispirifer tornacensis" = Atylephorus tornacensis de Koninck 1883
Spirifer sp. Sowerby 1818
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina ? sp. Buckman 1906
Bryozoa
  -
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
polyzoan