Lancaster Fells area, The Cravenoceratoides nitidus limestone (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)
Where: England, United Kingdom (54.0° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 5.7° E)
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: E2b zone, lower Member (Caton Shales Formation), Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, silty, carbonaceous limestone
• muddy bituminous limestone
Primary reference: F. Moseley. 1953. The Namurian of the Lancaster Fells. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 109(1-4):423-454 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis
PaleoDB collection 8256: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.07.2000
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Foraminifera | |
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera
"Foraminiferida indet." = Foraminifera Eichwald 1830 foram | |
Osteichthyes | |
Elonichthys sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish | |
Cephalopoda | |
Cravenoceratoides nitidus Phillips 1836 ammonite | |
Anthracoceras sp. Frech 1899 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Posidonia aff. membranacea oyster |