Dry stone wall (Wall F), near East Kirkton: Brigantian, United Kingdom
collected by S. P. Wood 1980
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Silvanerpeton miripedes
Clack 1994
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| UMZC T1252 (natural mold of a skull and anterior postcranium) | ||||||||||
| see common names | ||||||||||
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | West Lothian |
| Coordinates: | 56.0° North, 3.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 2.0° South, 2.5° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | basin |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Brigantian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 336.30000 - 330.90000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Upper Oil Shale | Formation: | East Kirkton Limestone | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Units assumed based on East Kirkton locality (22725) | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | not reported |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,mold/impression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | salvage,peel or thin section,field collection | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | ||
| Collectors: | S. P. Wood | Collection dates: | 1980s |
Metadata
| Database number: | 131670 | ||
| Authorizer: | R. Benson | Enterer: | R. Benson |
| Created: | 2012-07-27 19:42:38 | Last modified: | 2012-07-27 04:42:38 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2012-07-27 19:42:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 42473. | J. A. Clack. 1994. Silvanerpeton miripedes, a new anthracosauroid from the Viséan of East Kirkton, West Lothian, Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 84:369-376 [R. Benson/R. Benson/E. Dunne] |