Lancaster Fells area, Greta Valley: Yeadonian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Lingulata - Lingulida - Lingulidae
Lingula sp. BruguiƩre 1797
Lingula mytiloides Meek and Worthen 1873
synonym of Lingula carbonaria
Lingulata - Lingulida - Discinidae
Orbiculoidea cf. nitida
Strophomenata - Productida - Productellidae
Productus carbonarius
Cephalopoda - Nautilida - Trigonoceratidae
? Stroboceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Dimorphoceratidae
Dimorphoceras sp. Hyatt 1883
Cephalopoda - Goniatitida - Gastrioceratidae
Gastrioceras cancellatum
Gastrioceras sp. Hyatt 1884
Gastrioceras cumbriense
Bivalvia - Pectinida - Aviculopectinidae
Aviculopecten cf. gentilis
Bivalvia - Nuculanida - Nuculanidae
Nuculana sp. Link 1807
unclassified
Vertebrata indet. Lamarck 1801
fish scales and tooth
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:England
Coordinates: 54.0° North, 2.8° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:0.6° North, 7.2° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Pennsylvanian
Stage:Bashkirian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 4
*Period:Late/Upper Carboniferous *Epoch:Bashkirian
*International age/stage:Yeadonian
Key time interval:Yeadonian Zone: G1
Age range of interval:320.20000 - 318.80000 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Formation:Greta Grit
Stratigraphic resolution:member
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified "shale"
Lithology description: shales...dark marine shales.
Environment:offshore
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:biostratigraphic analysis
Metadata
Database number:8270
Authorizer:J. Alroy Enterer:M. Sommers
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2000-07-03 16:18:48 Last modified:2000-07-03 19:18:48
Access level:the public Released:2000-11-20 13:53:36
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

568. 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]