Gateham Hill: Asbian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Maxigoniatitidae
Bollandoceras sp. Bisat 1952
Trilobita - Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Namuropyge acanthina (Coignou 1890)
r category
p category
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
p category
r category
p category
p category
c category
p category
unclassified
Cnidaria indet. Hatschek 1888
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Derbyshire
Coordinates: 53.1° North, 1.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:30.0° South, 7.6° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on political unit
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Visean 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 2
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous *Epoch:Visean
*International age/stage:Asbian
Key time interval: Asbian
Age range of interval: 340.2 - 336.3 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Hopedale Limestones
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray lithified lime mudstone
Lithology description: consists predominantly of grey to pale-grey calcarenitic limestones...during asbian times, a micritic apron-reef facies formed extensive fringing mudbanks on the flanks of this platform [a shallow marine shelf or platform limestone].
Environment:reef, buildup or bioherm
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection excludes:some macrofossils
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Taxonomic list comments:Non-trilobites (aside from cephalopods) were not identified but listed as occurences. R = rare (< 5), P = present (5-20), C = common (> 20).
Metadata
Database number:5965
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Modifier:C. Visaggi Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-01-06 15:01:00 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:28
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:
379. J. W. Tilsley. 1988. New data on Carboniferous (Dinantian) trilobites from the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 47:163-176 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]