Are there any good books about Carboniferous Corals?

[Strepsodus]

Hi.  I collect Lower Carboniferous corals quite often on the Holderness Coast (UK) but I haven't been able to find a book which is about Lower Carboniferous British corals to help me identify my finds.  Can anyone suggest where I can get one from?

 

Thanks,

 

 

Daniel

[Stingray]

Try this link should get you started.....

 

http://www.southampton.ac.uk/~imw/Geology-Britain.htm

[Oxytropidoceras]

Being neither professional paleontologist nor coral expert,

I did the best that I could in terms of a quick literature search.

 

What I found was,

 

Hill, Author Dorothy, 1939 - 1941, A monograph on the Carboniferous

Rugose corals of Scotland, Parts 1-4, Issues 91-92; Issues 94-95 of

Publication, Palaeontographical Society, Great Britain, 213 pages

 

Hill, Dorothy, 1948, The distribution and sequence of Carboniferous

coral faunas. Geological Magazine, Vol. 85, Issue 3, pp. 121-148

Cambridge University Press : London, United Kingdom.

 

Kato, Makoto, 1971, J. Fleming's species of British lower Carboniferous

 corals. Transactions and Proceedings of the Palaeontological Society

of Japan. New Series, 1971, Vol. 81, pp. 1-10. Palaeontological Society

of Japan : Tokyo, Japan

 

Mitchell, Murray, 1989, Biostratigraphy of Visean (Dinantian) rugose

coral faunas from Britain. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological

Society, Vol. 47, Issue 3, pp. 233-247.

 

Mitchell, Murray, 1992, A lateral key for the identification of the

commoner Lower Carboniferous coral genera. Amateur Geologist.

Vol. 2, pp. 11-20. Liverpool Geological Society and the Manchester

Geological Association : [Liverpool], United Kingdom

 

Mitchell, Murray, and White, D. E, 1966, Catalogue of figured,

described and cited Carboniferous corals in the collections of the

Geological Survey and Museum, London. Bulletin of the Geological

Survey of Great Britain, 1966, Vol. 24, pp. 19-56

 

Sime, I. F., 1972, A catalogue of Carboniferous Corals in the Royal

Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.  Royal Scottish Museum Information

Series. Geology, 1972, Vol. 4. Royal Scottish Museum : Edinburgh,

United Kingdom, 72 p.

 

What I can find on the individual parts of the Hill monograph is:

 

Hill, Dorothy, 1939a, A monograph on the Carboniferous rugose

corals of Scotland, Part I, August, 1939, pp. 1-78

 

Hill, Dorothy, 1939b, A monograph on the Carboniferous rugose

corals of Scotland; Part II, ????, 1939, pp. 79 - 114.

 

Hill, Dorothy, 1940, A monograph on the Carboniferous rugose

corals of Scotland; Part III, July, 1940, pp. 115-204.

 

Hill, Dorothy, 1941, A monograph on the Carboniferous rugose

corals of Scotland; part IV, September, 1941, pp. 205-213

 

Undoubtedly there is more stuff out there, but someone more

familiar with this subject will have to find it.

 

Not being a coral expert, I hope that this helps some.

 

Yours,

 

Paul H.

[TqB]

Paul has listed most of the good ones!

 

Out of that lot, the most comprehensive is the superb Dorothy Hill monograph. Still available in reprint form (as the four separate parts) direct from the Palaeontographical Society and usually cheaper there than second hand ones. If you can find a first edition, the plates are a lot clearer but the reprint is quite useable. Some of the genera have been changed but people will still know what you're talking about.

 

Less advanced but with the updated genera is the little Murray Mitchell key, probably the best starting point.

"Mitchell, Murray, 1992, A lateral key for the identification of the

commoner Lower Carboniferous coral genera. Amateur Geologist.

Vol. 2, pp. 11-20. Liverpool Geological Society and the Manchester

Geological Association : [Liverpool], United Kingdom"

 

PM me if you can't find one and I'll send you a photocopy, it's only half a dozen pages. (I live in NE England).

 

Or just post here the ones you want to ID. 

 

 

 

 

[doushantuo]

Books,no

I'm thinking of the work of the folowing authors:John Nudds,Markus Aretz,R.K.Jull,E.Poty,and Fedorowski,of course

http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/43235

the Aretz piece on the holkierian/Asbian boundary is exemplary

Aretz & Nudds 2005 STRATIGRAPHY Corals Asby.pdf

[Strepsodus]

Hi.  Thanks for the replies.  Is the monograph by Dorothy Hill about Scottish rugose corals?  Does rugose corals include the common corals such as Siphonodendron?

 

Thanks,

 

 

Daniel

[doushantuo]

 

Nudds on Lithostrotionids:

http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/8215/1/8215_5215-vol1.PDF?UkUDh:CyT

 

oh yeah,and some Francophone authors(e.g.Plusquellec).You read French?

And Sorauf,Jell,Noble,Lee

 

[TqB]

1 hour ago, Strepsodus said:

Hi.  Thanks for the replies.  Is the monograph by Dorothy Hill about Scottish rugose corals?  Does rugose corals include the common corals such as Siphonodendron?

 

Thanks,

 

 

Daniel

Hi Daniel,

 

Yes it does although it was included in Lithostrotion then - Lithostrotion now refers only to the honeycomb shaped colonies of the group while Siphonodendron are the branched ones, along with Diphyphyllum which can be problematical to distinguish (you really need to work out how the corallites are dividing).

The fact that the focus is on Scotland doesn't matter at all, the English ones are pretty much the same.

It doesn't include tabulate corals but the only one you're likely to come across on the Yorkshire coast is Syringopora. I also have one specimen of Michelinia from there and know of a couple of Silurian Halysites from the Holderness which is a real mystery...

 

John Nudds' thesis linked by doushantuo is excellent on Lithostrotiontidae - again, he didn't use Siphonodendron. 

Rather more approachable at first is his very good key on Lithostrotionid ID for non specialists - free pdf available here, highly recommended:

https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app25/app25-385.pdf 

 

 

[Strepsodus]

Hi.  Thanks for the replies.  I've ordered all four sections of the monograph.

 

Thanks,

 

Daniel