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 8428: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 12.07.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Crinoidea | |
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Osteichthyes | |
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Rhadinichthys sp. Traquair 1877 | |
Strophomenata | |
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Rhynchonellata | |
Crurithyris sp. George 1931 | |
Cephalopoda | |
"Cravenoceras cowlingense" = Cravenoceras petrenkoi
"Cravenoceras cowlingense" = Cravenoceras petrenkoi Librovitch 1938 ammonite | |
? Anthracoceras sp. Frech 1899 ammonite | |
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Dolorthoceras sp. Miller 1931 | |
Bivalvia | |
Palaeolima sp. Hind 1903 file clam | |
Aviculopecten cf. losseni scallop | |
"Pseudamusium fibrillosum" = Streblochondria fibrillosa
"Pseudamusium fibrillosum" = Streblochondria fibrillosa Salter 1864 scallop | |
Posidonia cf. membranacea oyster
Posidonia vetusta oyster | |
"Leiopteria longirostris" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria)
"Leiopteria longirostris" = Leptodesma (Leiopteria) oyster | |
Anthozoa | |
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