Where: England, United Kingdom (55.0° N, 1.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.1° S, 6.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Thornbrough Limestone Member (Stainmore Formation), Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Thornbrough Limestone of the Stainmore Formation, which underlies the Newton Limestone and overlies the Corbridge Limestone Mbr of the Stainmore Formation. AGE: lower Bashkirian/Arnsbergian, on the basis of goniatite biostratigraphy. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: Collection representative of entire member.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: COLLECTORS: Multiple. REPOSITORY: Likely multiple repositories.
Primary reference: P. J. Brand. 2011. The Serpukhovian and Bashkirian (Carboniferous, Namurian and basal Westphalian) faunas of northern England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 58(3):143-165 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 162361: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Anthozoa | |
Aulophyllum fungites horn coral | |
Siphonodendron sp. McCoy 1849 horn coral | |
Demospongiae | |
Chaetetes sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1829 demosponge | |
Gastropoda | |
"Retispira decussata" = Retispira elegans
"Retispira decussata" = Retispira elegans de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail | |
"Euphemites ardenensis" = Euphemus urei ardenensis
"Euphemites ardenensis" = Euphemus urei ardenensis Weir 1931 snail | |
Glabrocingulum armstrongi Thomas 1940 snail | |
Bivalvia | |
"Leiopteria thompsoni" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria thompsoni" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
Posidonia corrugata oyster
Posidonia aff. lamellosa oyster | |
Limipecten dissimilis scallop | |
Aviculopecten knockonniensis scallop | |
Palaeolima simplex Phillips 1836 file clam | |
Pernopecten sp. Winchell 1865 scallop | |
Euchondria sp. Meek 1874 scallop | |
Prothyris scotica clam | |
Edmondia unioniformis Phillips 1836 clam
Edmondia sulcata clam | |
Schizodus taiti clam | |
Nuculopsis gibbosa nut clam
Nuculopsis cf. croneisi Schenck 1939 nut clam | |
Cephalopoda | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Punctospirifer sp. North 1920 | |
Strophomenata | |
Sinuatella sinuata de Koninck 1851 | |
Tornquistia sp. Paeckelmann 1930 | |
"Derbya gigantea" = Derbyia
"Derbya gigantea" = Derbyia |