Infracombe Slates: Combe Martin Slates (David's Stone Lst.) Site S (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 0.6° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: David's Stone Limestone Member (Combe Martin Slates Formation), Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; limestone and gray, silty, calcareous slate

• "Combe Martin Slates...mark a northward marine transgression and the establishment of a shelf sea over the whole of north Devon. Calm waters prevailed and coral banks grew..."
• "The Combe Martin Slates, comprising slates with three distinctive limestone beds, and subordinate thin sandstones and siltstones...The slates of the sequence are silvery grey, calcareous and commonly silty, the sandstones generally grey, fine grained and seldom thicker than 0.3 m...The Jenny Start Limestone commonly has an oolitic texture...The strata between the Jenny Start Lst and the Combe Martin Beach Lst comprise calcareous slates with thin limestone bands...sandy strata...and well-cleaved grey slates...The distinctive Combe Martin Beach Lst [is] highly ferruginous, with a considerable amount of pyrite, and associated with green calcareous shales...The David's Stone Limestone...comprises two beds separated by slates..."

Primary reference: E. A. Edmonds, A. Whittaker, and B. J. Williams. 1985. Geology of the country around Ilfracombe and Barnstaple (Memoirs of the British Geological Survey for 1:50000 sheets 277 and 293, new series) 1-97 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 38417: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004

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Taxonomic list

Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Laccophyllidae
Syringaxon sp. Lindström 1882 horn coral
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora cervicornis tabulate coral
 Favositida - Coenitidae
? Coenites sp. Eichwald 1829 tabulate coral
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily