Little Asby Scar, coral assemblage KS 2: Asbian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Heterocorallia
- Heterophylliidae
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Hexaphyllia sp.
Shtukenberg 1904
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Petalaxidae
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Lithostrotion maccoyanum
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
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| recombined as Petalaxis maccoyanus | |||||||
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Lithostrotionidae
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Siphonodendron cf. scaleberense
Nudds and Somerville 1987
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Siphonodendron martini
(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1851)
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Siphonodendron junceum
(Fleming 1828)
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Siphonodendron pauciradiale
(McCoy 1844)
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Anthozoa
- Stauriida
- Palaeosmiliidae
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Palaeosmilia murchisoni
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
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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: | Knipe Scar Limestone | ||
| Local section: | Little Asby Scar | Local bed: | 27 m | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: coral assemblage KS 2 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified "limestone" |
| Environment: | shallow subtidal indet. |
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
| Database number: | 76661 | ||
| Authorizer: | W. Kiessling | Enterer: | U. Merkel | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2007-11-28 07:59:29 | Last modified: | 2007-11-28 09:59:29 |
| Access level: | authorizer only | Released: | 2009-11-28 07:59:29 |
| 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] |