Infracombe Slates: Combe Martin Slates (David's Stone Lst.) Holwill Coll'n. (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

• 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

• "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..."

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

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Taxonomic list

Demospongiae
 Hadromerida - Suberitidae
Stromatoporoidea
 Stromatoporoidea -
Stromatoporoidea indet. stromatoporoid sponge
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
"cf. Phillipsastraea cf. devoniensis" = Phillipsastrea
"cf. Phillipsastraea cf. devoniensis" = Phillipsastrea horn coral
 Auloporida - Auloporidae
Aulopora sp. Goldfuss 1829 tabulate coral
 Favositida - Favositidae
 Favositida - Pachyporidae
Thamnopora tumefacta tabulate coral
 Favositida - Alveolitidae
? Alveolites spp. Lamarck 1801 tabulate coral