Badger Ford Beck, Cravenoceras gressinghamense Marine Band: Arnsbergian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Conodonta
Conodonta indet. Pander 1856
conodont debris
unclassified
Arthropoda indet. Latreille 1829
fragments
Serpuloides sp. Forsyth 1978
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
cf. Obliquipecten sp. Hind 1903
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Pectinidae
cf. Pseudamussium sp. Mörch 1853
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia corrugata
Posidonia lamellosa
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Anthracoceras sp. (Frech 1899)
"or dimorphoceratid indet."
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Glaphyritidae
Cravenoceras cf. gairense Currie 1954
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae
Cravenoceras sp. Bisat 1928
Cephalopoda
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847
orthocone
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Lancashire
Coordinates: 54.1° North, 2.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:1.1° South, 5.9° 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:8619
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-08-11 12:07:00 Last modified:2000-08-11 15:07:00
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]