Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 2.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: Little Cliff Shale Member (East Kirkton Limestone Formation), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min. Bed 82 - bed "b"; lower part of Brigantian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; shale and nodular ironstone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. P. Wood in 1988; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• NMS (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh), UMZC (University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge), and GLAHM (Hunerian Museum, Glasgow) collections
Primary reference: R. L. Paton. 1994. Elasmobranch fishes from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84:329-330 [R. Benson/R. Benson]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 131671: authorized by Roger Benson, entered by Roger Benson on 27.07.2012
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Pulmonoscorpius kirktonensis Jeram 1994 scorpion Specimens with unspecified provenance or either Units 42-47 or the Little Cliff Shale Member: (NMS G 1992.38.1, 1990.78.2, 1987.7.136, 1987.7.8, 1990.78.1, 1985.4.67; BELUM K17061, K17062, K17502) [see also collection 131672]
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"Orthosterni indet." = Orthosternina, Archaeoctonoidea indet.
"Orthosterni indet." = Orthosternina Pocock 1911 scorpion Cuticle scrap, BELUM K17066-K17067: pale cuticle with distinctive rugose surface ornament consisting of very fine tubercles. Setal follicles sparse and small
Archaeoctonoidea indet. Petrunkevitch 1949 scorpion Rare cuticle fragments (BELUM K17060, K17069) of pale yellow colour wiha distinctive V-shaped ornament. Setal follicles are sparse and very small
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