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FORD, T. 1965. The palaeoecology of the goniatite bed at Cowlow Nick, Castleton, Derbyshire. Palaeontology, 8, 1, 186–191.
Trevor David Ford The Cowlow Nick Goniatite Bed is shown to be an accumulation of randomly oriented, hollow, or spar-filled goniatite shells of several species in a matrix of calcilutite. Of very limited dimensions, the bed is surrounded by algal limestones of the fore-reef fades of Upper B2 age (Lower Carboniferous). Suggestions as to the mode of accumulation are discussed and it is concluded that the bed represents a specialized drifted assemblage of floating shells which were washed gently into an inactive surge channel or submarine cave. Some comparable occurrences elsewhere in Derbyshire are noted. The Palaeontological Association (Free Access)