Where: England, United Kingdom (54.2° N, 1.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 6.2° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: E2 zone, Cockhill Marine Band Formation, Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)

• "the complete fossiliferous horizon is more suitably termed the 'Cockhill Marine Band'...the term 'Cockhill Limestone' is retained but restricted to the band of fossiliferous limestone or limestone nodules where present."

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, concretionary, shelly/skeletal, calcareous, carbonaceous mudstone and wackestone

Primary reference: A. A. Wilson and A. T. Thompson. 1959. Marine bands of Arnsbergian age (Namurian) in the south-eastern portion of the Askrigg Block, Yorkshire. Proceedings of the Yorkshire Geological Society 32(3):45-68 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 8424: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 11.07.2000

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