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 (321.8 - 321.3 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 8263: 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 | |
Anthracoceras sp. Frech 1899 ammonite | |
Homoceras sp. Sepkoski 2002 ammonite | |
Bivalvia | |
Dunbarella cf. carbonarius scallop | |
Posidoniella minor clam |