Lancaster Fells area, The Anthracoceras beds (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: England, United Kingdom (54.0° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 1.2° S, 5.7° E)

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: E2b zone, lower Member (Caton Shales Formation), Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, black shale

• four to six feet of black shales

Primary reference: F. Moseley. 1953. The Namurian of the Lancaster Fells. The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 109(1-4):423-454 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8257: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 03.07.2000, edited by Austin Hendy

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys sp.
Elonichthys sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish
Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Dimorphoceras sp.
Dimorphoceras sp. Hyatt 1883 ammonite
 Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Anthracoceras aff. paucilobum
Anthracoceras aff. paucilobum Phillips 1836 ammonite
 Nautilida - Tainoceratidae
Tylonautilus nodiferus
 Orthocerida - Brachycycloceratidae
Brachycycloceras koninckianum, Brachycycloceras dilatatum
 Orthocerida - Orthoceratidae
Orthoceras martinianum
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Posidoniella minor, Posidoniella laevis, Posidoniella pyriformis
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia aff. membranacea, Posidonia corrugata