Artle Beck, Eumorphoceras yatesae Marine Band (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.0° N, 2.7° W: paleocoordinates 1.1° S, 5.7° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: E2a3 zone, Roeburndale Formation, Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)

• 18 m thick section

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, phosphatic, argillaceous, silty mudstone and limestone

• mainly fossiliferous, medium to dark grey, shaly, silty, minely micaceous mudstones. commonly calcareous in the lower part of the band with thin beds and nodules of argillaceous micritic limestone; small phosphate nodules abundant on some levels.

Primary reference: A. Brandon, N. Aitkenhead, R. G. Crofts, R. A. Ellison, D. J. Evans and N. J. Riley. 1998. Geology of the country around Lancaster. Memoir of the British Geological Survey. Sheet 59 (England and Wales) 1-181 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8620: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.08.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Conodonta
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Conodonta indet.
Conodonta indet. Pander 1856 conodont
unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish debris
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet.
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Selenimyalina variablis
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Dunbarella yatesae
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia lamellosa, Posidonia corrugata
Posidonia corrugata oyster
also including ssp. elongata
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Girtyoceratidae
Eumorphoceras yatesae
 Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Dimorphoceratidae indet.
Dimorphoceratidae indet. Hyatt 1884 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Berkhoceratidae
Kazakhoceras scaliger
Kazakhoceras scaliger Schmidt 1934 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Anthracoceras sp.
Anthracoceras sp. Frech 1899 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
"Cravenoceras gairense" = Stenoglaphyrites gairensis
"Cravenoceras gairense" = Stenoglaphyrites gairensis Currie 1954 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae
Cravenoceras sp.
Cravenoceras sp. Bisat 1928 ammonite
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
orthocone and coiled nautiloids
Rhynchonellata
 Rhynchonellida - Leiorhynchidae
"Nudirostra cf. papyracea" = Leiorhynchus
"Nudirostra cf. papyracea" = Leiorhynchus
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp.
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea sp.
Orbiculoidea sp. d'Orbigny 1847