ammonites
Miller's Dale area, Chee Tor Limestone (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (53.3° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 6.5° S, 1.6° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: D1 zone, Chee Tor Limestone Formation, Asbian (339.4 - 336.0 Ma)

• ~50' thick succession.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: deep subtidal shelf; lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone and lime mudstone

• they are calcarenites with some calcirudites and calcilutites, and are composed of crinoid and brachiopod fragments with minor amounts of forams, coral debris, and ostracods. algal colonies occur rarely.

Collection methods: peel or thin section,

Primary reference: E. B. Wolfenden. 1958. Paleoecology of the Carboniferous reef complex and shelf limestones in the northwest Derbyshire, England. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 69:871-898 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers] more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 5989: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 12.01.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY-NC-ND (attribution-noncommercial-no derivatives)

Miller's Dale area, Chee Tor Limestone: Asbian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Rhizaria
Foraminiferida indet. (d'Orbigny 1826)
original and current combination Foraminifera
Dasycladophyceae - Dasycladales
Koninckopora inflata
Anthozoa - Auloporida - Syringoporidae
Syringopora sp. Goldfuss 1826
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Cyathopsidae
Caninia sp. Michelin 1840
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Dibunophyllum bourtonense
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Palaeosmilia murchisoni Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lithostrotionidae
Lithostrotion irregulare
Lithostrotion junceum
Strophomenata - Productida - Linoproductidae
Linoproductus cf. hemisphaericus
Strophomenata - Productida - Daviesiellidae
Daviesiella aff. comoides (Sowerby 1823)
Rhynchonellata - Athyridida - Athyrididae
Athyris sp.
Ostracoda
Ostracoda indet. Latreille 1802
unclassified
Calcisphaera sp.
Gastropoda - Bellerophontida
Bellerophon sp. de Montfort 1808
    = Bellerophontoidea indet. M'Coy 1851
Wagner 2011
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
Demospongea - Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Chaetetes depressus
Porostromata
Girvanella sp. Nicholson and Etheridge 1878
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Derbyshire
Coordinates: 53.3° North, 1.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:6.5° South, 1.6° East
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Middle Mississippian
Stage:Visean 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 2
Key time interval:Asbian Zone: D1
Age range of interval:339.4 - 336.0 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Chee Tor Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:formation
Stratigraphy comments: ~50' thick succession.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:shelly/skeletal lithified "limestone"
Secondary lithology: lime mudstone
Lithology description: they are calcarenites with some calcirudites and calcilutites, and are composed of crinoid and brachiopod fragments with minor amounts of forams, coral debris, and ostracods. algal colonies occur rarely.
Environment:deep subtidal shelf
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some microfossils,difficult macrofossils
Collection methods:peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:5989
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, P. Wagner
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-01-12 15:39:40 Last modified:2000-01-13 10:39:40
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:29
Creative Commons license:CC BY-NC-ND
Reference information
Primary reference:
382 E. B. Wolfenden. 1958. Paleoecology of the Carboniferous reef complex and shelf limestones in the northwest Derbyshire, England. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 69:871-898 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]

Secondary references:

9042 P. J. Wagner. 2011. Paleozoic Gastropod, Rostroconch, Helcionelloid and Tergomyan Database. [P. Wagner/P. Wagner/P. Wagner]