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

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