Treak Cliff, Castleton: Asbian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821
unclassified
Brachiopoda indet. Cuvier 1805
Bryozoa indet. Ehrenberg 1831
Bivalvia
Gastropoda
Cephalopoda
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Prolecanitidae
Prolecanites sp. Mojsisovics 1882
25 specimens
    = Prolecanites discoides Foord and Crick 1897
Korn and Tilsley 2006
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Nomismoceratidae
Nomismoceras sp. Foord and Crick 1897
15 specimens
    = Nomismoceras vittiger Phillips 1836
Korn and Tilsley 2006
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Dimorphoceratidae
Dimorphoceras sp. Hyatt 1883
2 specimens
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Goniatitidae
Goniatites sp. Haan 1825
22 specimens
    = Goniatites hudsoni Bisat 1934
Korn and Tilsley 2006
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Muensteroceratidae
Cephalopoda - Ammonoida - Maxigoniatitidae
Beyrichoceras sp. Foord 1903
18 specimens
    = Beyrichoceras delicatum Bisat 1924
Riley 1996
Bollandites sp. Bisat 1952
7 specimens
Riley 1996
Korn and Tilsley 2006 23 specimens
Korn and Tilsley 2006 8 specimens
Goniatites moorei Weyer 1972
Korn and Tilsley 2006 1 specimen
Bollandoceras sp. Bisat 1952
5 specimens
Korn and Tilsley 2006
Trilobita - Proetida - Brachymetopidae
Namuropyge acanthina (Coignou 1890)
c category
Namuropyge kingi Richter and Richter 1939
r category
c category
p category
Trilobita - Proetida - Phillipsiidae
c category
p category
c category
Cummingella auge Hahn and Hahn 1968
r category
p category
p category
c category
Winterbergia sp. Hahn and Brauckmann 1975
p category
sp. 1
c category
Bollandia sp. Reed 1943
p category
r category
unclassified
Cnidaria indet. Hatschek 1888
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England County:Derbyshire
Coordinates: 53.3° North, 1.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:29.8° South, 7.8° 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:Bee Low 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
Size of fossils:macrofossils
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:5966
Authorizer:J. Alroy, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Sommers, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-01-06 15:19:06 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2000-01-06 15:19:06
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]

Secondary references:

87507 D. Korn and J. W. Tilsley. 2006. Ammonoid assemblages from the Asbian B2b (Early Carboniferous: Mississippian) buildups of the Peak District, England. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 52(2):111-150 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
87506 N. J. Riley. 1996. Mid-Dinantian ammonoids from the Craven Basin, northwest England. Special papers in Palaeontology 53:1-87 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]