Black Rock Limestone from Burrington Combe, Bed 12, 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 Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• bed is 67 feet thick; top of bed is 426 feet above the base of the section; top 16 feet well-bedded massive limestone with shaly partings, next 9 feet rubble, remainder poorly-bedded slightly rubbly

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

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

• black and dark grey rather fine-grained limestone with scattered coarse crinoidal debris

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 8712: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Donna Carlson on 28.08.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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Taxonomic list

• No crinoid identifications are made in the list but the rock is described as containing "crinoidal debris". Fossils appreciably silicified in top 20-25 feet.
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
 Stauriida - Zaphrentoididae
"Zaphrentis konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense
"Zaphrentis konincki" = Sychnoelasma hawbankense Mitchell and Somerville 1988 horn coral
'Zaphrentis' konincki forma typica
 Stauriida - Cyathaxoniidae
Cyathaxonia cornu Michelin 1846 horn coral
 Stauriida - Amplexidae
Amplexus spp. Sowerby 1814 horn coral
Amplexus sp. and A. or Caninia?
 Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia sp. Michelin 1840 horn coral
[cf. C. cornucopiae]
Caninia cornucopiae Michelin 1840 horn coral
 Stauriida - Bothrophyllidae
Caninophyllum patulum horn coral
closely septate form
Gastropoda
 Bellerophontida -
Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limipectinidae
Acanthopecten ? sp. Girty 1903 scallop
Strophomenata
 Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris sp. North 1920
 Orthida - Schizophoriidae
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839