Black Rock Limestone from Burrington Combe, Bed 7, Lower Carboniferous, (Middle-: Tournaisian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Mucrospiriferidae
Tylothyris ? sp. North 1920
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Unispirifer tornacensis (de Koninck 1883)
recombined as Atylephorus tornacensis
Rhynchonellata - Orthida - Rhipidomellidae
Rhipidomella michelini (L'Eveille 1835)
Rhynchonellata - Spiriferinida - Syringothyrididae
Syringothyris cuspidata (Martin 1796)
Syringothyris cuspidata cf. cyrtorhyncha
Rhynchonellata - Rhynchonellida - Camarotoechiidae
Camarotoechia cf. pleurodon
Camarotoechia sp. Hall and Clarke 1893
Strophomenata - Productida - Productidae
Productus (Dictyoclostus) vaughani
original and current combination Dictyoclostus
P. (Dictyoclostus) vaughani
Productus (Dictyoclostus) aff. vaughani
original and current combination Dictyoclostus
P. (Dictyoclostus) aff. vaughani
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Productus sp.
P. (Buxtonia) sp. and P. (Pustula) sp.
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Chonetes (Rugosochonetes) vaughani
C. (Rugosochonetes) vaughani
Strophomenata - Strophomenida - Rafinesquinidae
Leptaena analoga (Phillips 1836)
recombined as Leptagonia analoga
Strophomenata - Orthotetida - Pulsiidae
Schellwienella aspis
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida
Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808
    = Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851
Wagner 2023
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:7
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: bed is 37 feet thick; top of bed is 255 feet above base
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal,gray "limestone"
Lithology description: grey coarsely crinoidal brachiopod limestone, rather massive but with well-defined bedding planes
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
Taxonomic list comments:No crinoid identifications are made in the list but the rock is described as a "crinoidal brachiopod limestone".
Metadata
Database number:8701
Authorizer:A. Miller, P. Wagner Enterer:D. Carlson, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-08-27 14:11:23 Last modified:2019-06-17 23:46:58
Access level:the public Released:2000-08-27 14:11:23
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]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2023. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database (2006 - 2023). [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]