Butter Haw Hill, mudmound flank, Sample Pc4842: Asbian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Pseudoammodiscidae
Pseudoammodiscus sp.
Endothyridae
Endothyra sp.
Archaediscidae
Archaediscus sp.
Tetrataxidae
Tetrataxis sp. Ehrenberg 1854
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom
Coordinates: 54.1° North, 2.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:5.8° South, 1.3° East
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Middle Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
Key time interval:Asbian Ammonoid zone: B1
Age range of interval:339.40000 - 336.00000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Great Scar Limestone Formation:Kilnsey Member:Scaleber Quarry Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Stratigraphy comments: Early Asbian, foraminifers Cf6α−β
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: mudstone
Lithology description: A mudmound facies in the lower slopes of the southern flank of Butter Haw Hill is represented by a bryozoan-rich micropeloidal mudstone to cementstone with entire cavities filled by radiaxial calcite cements, passing into micropeloidal bryozoan wackestone with small stromatactis
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Geology comments: mudmound flank
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection size:3080 specimens
Reason for describing collection:paleoecologic analysis
Collection method comments: Lumps information from 11 samples locations, not subdivided in table
Taxonomic list comments:Percentage data refers to percent of localities where taxon was recorded
Metadata
Database number:185530
Authorizer:W. Kiessling Enterer:M. Krause
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2017-04-27 07:04:19 Last modified:2017-04-27 07:04:19
Access level:authorizer only Released:2017-07-27 07:04:19
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

62084. C. N. Waters, R. B. Haslam, P. Cózar, I. D. Somerville, D. Millward and M. Woods. 2017. Mississippian reef development in the Cracoe Limestone Formation of the southern Askrigg Block, North Yorkshire, UK. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society [W. Kiessling/M. Krause]