Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 3.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° S, 20.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Kip Burn Formation (Priesthill Group), Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• "Kip Burn Formtaion, Pristhill Group (=Ceratiocaris and Pterygotus Beds). Wenlockian (possibly Late Llandoverian)."
• formation-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; gray, green mudstone and siltstone
Primary reference: R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26889: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 07.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Gastropoda | |
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail | |
Lingulata | |
"Lingula" sp. BruguiƩre 1797 | |
Xiphosura | |
Xiphosurida indet. Latreille 1802 | |
Euchelicerata | |
Carcinosoma scorpionoides, "Paracarcinosoma obesus" = Eusarcana
Carcinosoma scorpionoides eurypterid
"Paracarcinosoma obesus" = Eusarcana eurypterid | |
Slimonia acuminata Salter 1856 eurypterid | |
Pterygotus lanarkensis eurypterid
Erettopterus bilobus Salter 1856 eurypterid | |
Nanahughmilleria lanceolata eurypterid | |
Parastylonurus sigmoidalis eurypterid | |
Malacostraca | |
Petromyzontida | |
Logania | |
"Logania" sp. Gross 1967 |