Black Rock Limestone from Burrington Combe, Bed 1, Lower Carboniferous, (Middle-: Tournaisian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Schellwienella ? sp.
Schellwienella sp.
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes (Rugosochonetes) vaughani
Chonetes (Rugosochonetes) vaughani
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rugosochonetidae
Chonetes (Plicochonetes) aff. stoddarti
original and current combination Plicochonetes
Chonetes (Plicochonetes) aff. stoddarti
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena analoga (Phillips 1836)
recombined as Leptagonia analoga
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida
Spiriferidina indet. Waagen 1883
smooth spiriferid
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Unispirifer tornacensis (de Koninck 1883)
recombined as Atylephorus tornacensis
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Cleiothyridina royssii (Leveille 1835)
misspelling Cleiothyridina deroissyi
beta
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyris sp.
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia mitcheldeanensis
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Antiphyllidae
Fasciculophyllum omaliusi
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Hapsiphyllidae
Zaphrentites delanouei
Zaphrentites ? sp. Hudson 1941
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Somerset
Coordinates: 51.3° North, 2.7° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:14.7° South, 0.3° West
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Mississippian
Stage:Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous *Epoch:Middle Tournaisian - Late/Upper Tournaisian
Key time interval:Tournaisian
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Pembroke Limestone Formation:Black Rock Limestone
Local section:Burrington Coombe Local bed:1
Regional order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: The roof of Goatchurch Cavern lies 7 ft below the top of this bed. Bed is 18 feet thick; top of bed is 18 feet above base of section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray "limestone"
Lithology description: dark grey to grey coarsely crinoidal brachiopod limestone
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,replaced with silica
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:difficult macrofossils
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Collection method comments: faunal succession from Burrington Combe
Taxonomic list comments:No crinoid identifications are made in the list but the rock is described as a "crinoidal brachiopod limestone".
Metadata
Database number:8688
Authorizer:A. Miller Enterer:D. Carlson
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-08-27 13:04:50 Last modified:2019-06-17 23:45:43
Access level:the public Released:2000-08-27 13:04:50
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
681. 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]