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: Pike Hill Limestone Member (Stainmore Formation), Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)
• LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY: From the Coalcleugh Shell Bed (Pike Hill Limestone) of the Stainmore Formation, which underlies the Thornbrough 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 162363: authorized by Austin Hendy, entered by Austin Hendy on 23.09.2014
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Anthozoa | |
Aulophyllum fungites horn coral | |
Diphyphyllum sp. Lonsdale 1845 horn coral | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Lingulata | |
"Lingula squamiformis" = Lingularia squamiformis
"Lingula squamiformis" = Lingularia squamiformis Phillips 1836 | |
Strophomenata | |
Productus carbonarius de Koninck 1842 | |
Tornquistia sp. Paeckelmann 1930 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeolima simplex Phillips 1836 file clam | |
Posidonia corrugata oyster | |
Actinopteria regularis oyster | |
Gastropoda | |
Retispira undata, "Retispira decussata" = Retispira elegans
Retispira undata Etheridge 1876 snail
"Retispira decussata" = Retispira elegans de Ferrusac and d'Orbigny 1840 snail |