Heatherslade Bay, Horizon 19: Arundian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Bivalvia
- Pectinida
- Aviculopectinidae
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Aviculopecten sp.
M'Coy 1851
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8 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Orthonematidae
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Aclisina sp.
de Koninck 1881
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
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Bellerophontida indet.
Ulrich and Scofield 1897
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8 specimens | |||||||||
| Bellerophon sp. and Euphemites sp. | ||||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Euomphalidae
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Straparollus sp.
de Montfort 1810
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12 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
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Murchisonia sp.
d'Archiac and de Verneuil 1841
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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= Murchisonioidea indet.
Koken 1896
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Wagner 2023 | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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Mourlonia sp.
de Koninck 1883
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Rostroconchia
- Conocardiida
- Conocardiidae
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Conocardium sp.
Bronn 1835
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13 specimens | |||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Nautilida
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Nautilida indet.
Agassiz 1847
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38 specimens | |||||||||
| nautiloid, straight shelled | ||||||||||
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Anthozoa
- Rugosa
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Rugosa indet.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| giant caninioid | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Wales |
| Coordinates: | 51.6° North, 4.0° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 10.7° South, 0.4° West | ||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Visean |
| *International age/stage: | Arundian | ||
| Key time interval: | Arundian | Zone: | C2S1 beds of Caninia Zone |
| Age range of interval: | 346.70000 - 340.20000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | High Tor Limestone | Member: | lagoonal facies | ||
| Local section: | Heathslade Bay | Local bed: | 19 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 67 m above base | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified silty lime mudstone |
| Lithology description: standard facies: richly fossiliferous coarse-grained crinoidal limestone, thin- to thick-bedded...specific lithologies include wackestone, packstone, and grainstone. thin lime mudstone beds occur at various intervals. lagoonal facies: lime mudstone. | |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
| Geology comments: Paleoenvironment should be carbonate lagoonal | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | difficult macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),field collection,observed (not collected) |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:Crinoids not identified. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 5840 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy, P. Wagner | Enterer: | M. Sommers, P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 1999-12-07 16:00:03 | Last modified: | 2001-08-16 13:10:36 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:28 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 366. | S. S. Beus. 1984. Fossil associations in the High Tor Limestone (Lower Carboniferous) of South Wales. Journal of Paleontology 58(3):651-667 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Alroy] |
Secondary references:
| 9042 | P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner] |