Little Asby Scar, coral assemblage PB, coral-chaetetid biostrome: Asbian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Demospongiae
- Hadromerida
- Suberitidae
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Chaetetes sp.
Fischer von Waldheim 1829
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Anthozoa
- Heterocorallia
- Heterophylliidae
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Hexaphyllia marginata
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Hexaphyllia mirabilis
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Syringoporidae
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Syringopora sp.
Goldfuss 1826
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Anthozoa
- Auloporida
- Auloporidae
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Auloporidae indet.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Lithostrotionidae
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Siphonodendron sp.
McCoy 1849
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Siphonodendron martini
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Cyathopsidae
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Siphonophyllia siblyi
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Bothrophyllidae
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Caninophyllum archiaci
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1852)
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Axophyllidae
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Axophyllum vaughani
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Cumbria |
| Coordinates: | 54.5° North, 2.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.4° South, 1.1° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Asbian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 340.20000 - 336.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Alston | Formation: | Potts Beck Limestone | ||
| Local section: | Little Asby Scar | Local bed: | 7 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: coral assemblage PB | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified rudstone |
| Lithology description: coral-chaetetid biostrome, up to 1.4 m thick | |
| Environment: | reef, buildup or bioherm |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Preservation of anatomical detail: | good |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | peel or thin section,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Reef 3645 | ||
| Database number: | 76659 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel, F. Reichel |
| Modifier: | F. Reichel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-28 07:18:48 | Last modified: | 2008-02-26 07:05:06 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-11-28 07:18:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 25940. | M. Aretz and J. Nudds. 2005. The coral fauna of the Holkerian/Asbian boundary stratotype section (Carboniferous) at Little Asby Scar (Cumbria, England) and implications for boundary. Stratigraphy 2(2):167-190 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel] |
Secondary references:
| 26564 | M. Aretz and J. Nudds. 2007. Palaeoecology of the late Visean (Dinantian) coral-chaetetid biostrome at Little Asby Scar (Cumbria, Great Britain). In B. Hubann, W. E. Piller (eds.), Fossil Corals and Sponges: Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera, Graz 2003 17:365-381 [W. Kiessling/F. Reichel/P. Wagner] |