Where: England, United Kingdom (53.8° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 0.4° N, 7.6° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: R1c - R2a zone, Kinderscoutian to Kinderscoutian (321.8 - 320.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: delta front; lithified, pyritic, gray mudstone

Primary reference: R. M. C. Eagar. 1977. Some new Namurian bivalve faunas and their significance in the origin of Carbonicola and in the colonization of Carboniferous deltaic environments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B - Biological Sciences 280:535-570 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8215: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 29.06.2000

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