Foxdale Beck, Eumorphoceras yatesae Marine Band: Arnsbergian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Bivalvia - Myalinida - Myalinidae
Selenimyalina variablis
Bivalvia - Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia corrugata
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Anthracoceras sp. (Frech 1899)
"or dimorphoceratid indet."
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Cravenoceratidae
Cravenoceratidae indet. Ruzhencev 1957
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Lancashire
Coordinates: 54.0° 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:  E2a3
Age range of interval: 327.4 - 324 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Roeburndale
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: thinner than at Artle Beck. Up to 0.3 m thick for the marine band.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:sideritic,gray lithified argillaceous mudstone
Lithology description: blue-gray shaly mudstone with a thin bed of siderite mudstone.
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:8621
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-08-11 14:19:14 Last modified:2000-08-11 17:19:14
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]