Glauconitic limestones, Hartshill Fm., Warwickshire, UK - Brasier and Hewitt 197 (Cambrian of the United Kingdom)

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

• Maroon colored glauconitic sandy limestone containing clasts and mineralized surfaces (hardgrounds) of similar phosphatized 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

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Taxonomic list

 Hyolithelminthida - Torellellidae
Torellella lentiformis Syssoiev 1962
 Hyolithelminthida - Hyolithellidae
Hyolithellus micans Billings 1871
Coleoloides
  -
Coleoloides typicalis
  -
Coleoloides typicalis Walcott 1890
Brachiopoda
 Mitrosagophora - Tommotiidae
"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
 Tommotiida - Sunnaginiidae
Sunnaginia imbricata Rozanov et al. 1969
Paterinata
 Paterinida - Paterinidae
 Protoconodontida -
Conodonta
  - Amphigeisinidae