Lancaster Fells area, Crossdale (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.0° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.6° N, 7.2° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: R1 zone, lower shales and sandstones Member (Bentham Grit Formation), Kinderscoutian (318.1 - 314.6 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale

• fine grained black shale.

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 8262: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.07.2000

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