The distribution of Tournaisian and early Visean (Carboniferous) coral faunas from the Bristol and south Wales areas of Britain

• Autorzy: Mitchell M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The Tournaisian and early Viséan (Carboniferous) faunas of Britain have been divided into a sequence of four assemblage biozones, the Vaughania vetus, Zaphrentites delanouei and Caninophyllum patulum assemblage biozones which are of Tournaisian age, and the Siphonophyllia cylindrica Assemblage Biozone of Viséan (Chadian) age. This sequence of biozones established at Burrington Combe in the Mendips is used to correlate the Tournalsian and early Viséan rocks from eight sections in the Bristol and South Wales areas. Several sections can be shown to be incomplete with a northward widening non-sequence present between the top of the Black Rock Limestone and the base of the succeeding Gully Oolite. One new species Sychnoelasma clevedonensis sp.n. and one new subspecies Caninophyllum patulum greeni sub-sp.n. are named.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Rocznik: 1980
• Tom: 25
• Numer: 3-4
• Opis fizyczny: p.577-585,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

autor

Mitchell M.

• Institute of Geological Sciences, Ring Road Halton, Leeds LS15 8TQ, U.K.

Bibliografia

• CARRUTHERS, R. G. 1908. A revision of some Carboniferous corals. - Geol. Mag., (5), 5, 20-31, 63-74, 158-171.
• DIXON, E. E. L. and VAUGHAN, A. 1912. The Carboniferous succession in Gower (Glamorganshire), with notes on its fauna and conditions of deposition. - Q. J. geol. Soc. London, 67, 477-571.
• GEORGE, T. N., JOHNSON, G. A. L., MITCHELL, M., PRENTICE, J. E., RAMSBOTTOM, W. H. C., SEVASTOPULO, S. D. and WILSON, R. B. 1976. A correlation of Dinantian rocks in the British Isles. - Spec. Rep. geol. Soc. London, 7, 87 pp.
• HUDSON, R. G. S. and MITCHELL, G. H. 1937. The Carboniferous geology of the Skipton Anticline. - Summ. Prog. geol. Surv. Great Britain for 1935, Part 2, 1-45.
• MITCHELL, M. 1972. The base of the Viséan in south-west and north-west England. - Proc. Yorkshire geol. Soc., 39, 151-160.
• - and GREEN, G. W. 1965. Appendix I. The faunal succession in the Carboniferous Limestone of Burrington Combe. In: G. W. Green and F. B. A. Welch, Geology of the Country around Wells and Cheddar. - Mem. geol. Surv. Great Britain, 177-197.
• RAMSBOTTOM, W. H. C. 1973. Transgressions and regressions in the Dinantian: a new synthesis of British Dinantian stratigraphy. - Proc. Yorkshire geol. Soc., 39, 567-607.
• - 1977. Major cycles of transgression and regression (mesothems) in the Namurian. - Ibidem, 41, 261-291.
• - and MITCHELL, M. 1980. The recognition and division of the Tournaisian Series in Britain. - J. geol. Soc. London, 137, 61-63.
• REYNOLDS, M. J., MITCHELL, M. and RAMSBOTTOM, W. H. C. in preparation. The distribution of platform conodonts, corals and foraminifera from the Black Rock Limestone (Tournaisian and early Viséan) of Tears Point, Gower, South Wales.
• REYNOLDS, S. H. and VAUGHAN, A. 1911. Faunal and lithological sequence in the Carboniferous Limestone Series (Avonian) of Burrington Combe (Somerset). - Q. J. geol. Soc. London, 67, 342-392.
• RHODES, F. H. T. and AUSTIN, R. L. 1971. Carboniferous conodont faunas of Europe. - Mem. geol. Soc. Amer., 127, 317-352.
• SALÉE, A. 1910. Contribution à l'étude des polypiers du Calcaire Carbonifère de la Belgique. Le genre Caninia. - Nouv. Mém. Soc. Belge Géol. Paleont. Hydrol., 3, 62 pp.
• VAUGHAN, A. 1905. The palaeontological sequence in the Carboniferous Limestone of the Bristol area. - Q. J. geol. Soc. London, 61, 181-307.
• WHITTAKER, A. and GREEN, G. W. in preparation. Geology of the country around Weston-super-Mare. - Mem. Geol. Surv. Great Britain.
• - and SCRIVENER, R. C. 1978. In: IGS boreholes 1976. - Rep. Inst. Geol. Sci., 77/10, 12-13.
• - et al. in preparation. Deep borehole at Cannington Park, Somerset. - Ibidem.