Where: Warwickshire, United Kingdom (52.6° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 85.0° S, 64.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Home Farm Member (Hartshill Formation), Tommotian (525.5 - 521.0 Ma)
• The top of the Formation (Home Farm Member and overlying Woodlands Member) has been correlated with the Tommotian Stage of the Siberian Cambrian. The Home Farm member is approximately 2m thick.
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: shallow subtidal; lithified, hardground, glauconitic, cherty/siliceous limestone
Preservation: trace
Primary reference: M. D. Brasier and R. A. Hewitt. 1978. On the Late Precambrian- Early cambrian Hartshill Formation of Warwickshire. Geological Magazine 115(1):21-36 [M. Patzkowsky/P. Borkow]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10253: authorized by Mark Patzkowsky, entered by Phil Borkow on 20.03.2001
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Torellella lentiformis Syssoiev 1962 | |
Hyolithellus micans Billings 1871 | |
Coleoloides | |
Coleoloides typicalis | |
Coleoloides typicalis Walcott 1890 | |
Brachiopoda | |
"Tommotia baltica" = Camenella baltica, Camenella garbowskae, "Tommotia cf. plana" = Camenella, "Tommotia cf. kozlowskae" = Camenella kozlowskii
"Tommotia baltica" = Camenella baltica Bengtson 1970
Camenella garbowskae Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966
"Tommotia cf. plana" = Camenella
"Tommotia cf. kozlowskae" = Camenella kozlowskii Rozanov and Missarzhevsky 1966 | |
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969 | |
Paterinata | |
Conodonta | |
Amphigeisina cf. danica conodont |