Lancaster Fells area, Fowgill Beck/High Bentham (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: R2 zone, Marsdenian (321.3 - 320.0 Ma)

• no rock/formation name given

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, red sandstone

• coarse, red, false-bedded sandstones

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 8268: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.07.2000

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Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish spine
Rhynchonellata
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
? Dielasma sp.
? Dielasma sp. King 1856
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
Productus carbonarius
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula mytiloides" = Lingula carbonaria
"Lingula mytiloides" = Lingula carbonaria Shumard and Swallow 1858
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Posidoniella ? vetusta, Posidoniella cf. semisulcata
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Dunbarella speciosa
Cephalopoda
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras sp.
Orthoceras sp. Breynius 1832
 Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Dimorphoceras sp.
Dimorphoceras sp. Hyatt 1883 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Anthracoceras sp.
Anthracoceras sp. Frech 1899 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Reticuloceratidae
Reticuloceras gracile
Reticuloceras gracile ammonite
includes "late form"