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 (326.4 - 318.1 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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