Where: England, United Kingdom (51.2° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 25.8° S, 0.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• local area-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
Collection methods: Material from Holwill Collection (Murchison Museum, Imperial College London). Included here are only those species not present in the BGS collections.
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 38418: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 21.04.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes multitabulatus demosponge | |
Stromatoporoidea | |
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge | |
Anthozoa | |
"cf. Phillipsastraea cf. devoniensis" = Phillipsastrea
"cf. Phillipsastraea cf. devoniensis" = Phillipsastrea horn coral | |
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral | |
Pachyfavosites polymorphus tabulate coral | |
Thamnopora tumefacta tabulate coral | |
? Alveolites spp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral |