Lancaster Fells area, The shales below the C. holmesi 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, upper Member (Caton Shales Formation), Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, concretionary, gray, argillaceous, calcareous shale
• gray, slightly micaceous shale with fairly frequent bands of calcareous 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 8258: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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| Cephalopoda | |
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Anthracoceras sp. Frech 1899 ammonite | |
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Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832 | |
| Bivalvia | |
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Posidoniella sp. Koninck 1885 clam | |