Hunt's Gill, Cravenoceras gressinghamense Marine Band: Arnsbergian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Lamarck 1801
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| fish debris | ||||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Posidoniidae
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Posidonia corrugata
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Anthracoceratidae
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Anthracoceras sp.
(Frech 1899)
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| "or dimorphoceratid indet." | ||||||||||
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Cephalopoda
- Goniatitida
- Cravenoceratidae
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Cravenoceras sp.
Bisat 1928
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | England | County: | Lancashire |
| Coordinates: | 54.1° North, 2.6° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.1° South, 5.8° East | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Serpukhovian | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 3 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Serpukhovian |
| *International age/stage: | Arnsbergian | ||
| Key time interval: | Arnsbergian | Zone: | E2a2-alpha |
| Age range of interval: | 327.4 - 324 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Roeburndale | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: About 1.5 m thick section. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | concretionary,phosphatic,gray lithified mudstone |
| Secondary lithology: | "limestone" |
| Lithology description: [litho is taken from brandon et al. 1995] fossiliferous, hemipelagic, dark grey, fissile mudstone with abundant small, irregular phosphatic nodules. limestone nodules are common. some cone-in-cone structure | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | biostratigraphic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 8618 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2000-08-11 11:59:02 | Last modified: | 2000-08-11 14:59:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 588. | 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] |