Lancaster Fells area, The Cravenoceratoides lirifer beds (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: offshore; poorly lithified, concretionary, black shale
• 12 feet of shale...black, fairly soft and fine grained, with occasional bands of septarian nodules.
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 8255: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.07.2000, edited by Austin Hendy
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Taxonomic list
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| unclassified | |
| Coleolus | |
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Coleolus sp. Hall 1879 | |
| Osteichthyes | |
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Elonichthys sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Posidoniella sulcata clam
Posidoniella laevis clam | |
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Posidonia aff. mambranacea oyster
Posidonia corrugata oyster | |
| Cephalopoda | |
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Cravenoceratoides lirifer Hudson 1946 ammonite
Cravenoceratoides aff. nitidus Phillips 1836 ammonite | |
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Dimorphoceras sp. Hyatt 1883 ammonite | |
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Anthracoceras aff. paucilobum Phillips 1836 ammonite | |
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Eumorphoceras bisulcatum Girty 1909 ammonite | |
"Cravenoceras aff. holmesi" = Glaphyrites holmesi
"Cravenoceras aff. holmesi" = Glaphyrites holmesi Bisat 1932 ammonite | |