Redford Pit (GLAHM 0HF 3.28.2) (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Broadhead Farm (GLAHM OHF 3.28.6); No.2 Candie Pit (GLAHM OHF 3.28.1); Lower Coal Measures; Colinburn and Armadale Main coals

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.6° N, 4.4° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Coal Measures Formation, Tournaisian to Tournaisian (358.9 - 298.9 Ma)

• The exact stratigraphic position of the sandstone is unclear. It may have come from the lower half of the Coal measures between the Colinburn and Armadale Main coals, which consist mainly of sandstones, or from above the Armadale Main below the Mill Coal.

• formation-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; sandstone

• slab of Carboniferous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression, trace

Collection methods: salvage,

Primary reference: N. D. L. Clark and M. Jewkes. 2000. Tetrapod trackways (Matthewichnus sp. and ?Pseudobradypus sp.) from the Coal Measures (Carboniferous) of Central Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 36(1):87-90 [J. Alroy/R. Whatley/R. Whatley]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 27703: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Robin Whatley on 20.12.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Amphibia
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Matthewichnus sp. Haubold 1970 tetrapod
tetrapod trackway
Osteichthyes
 Captorhinomorpha -
? Pseudobradypus sp. Matthew 1903 tetrapod
tetrapod trackway