Willie’s Hole, bed 1: Tournaisian, United Kingdom
collected by Stan Wood

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Myriapoda - Woodesmidae
Woodesmus sheari n. gen., n. sp. Ross et al. 2018
1 specimen
NMS G. 2012.39.10 (WOOD G762A, B1–3)
Myriapoda
? Juliformia informal indet. 4 Attems 1926
1 specimen
NMS G. 2012.39.32 (WOOD G763A, B)
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Scotland County:Berwickshire
Coordinates: 55.8° North, 2.2° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.4° South, 1.2° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period:Carboniferous Epoch:Early/Lower Mississippian
Stage:Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin:Carboniferous 1
Key time interval:Tournaisian
Age range of interval:358.90000 - 346.70000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Formation:Ballagan
Stratigraphy comments: "Early mid­ Tournaisian". Interval above the amphibian bed.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:planar lamination,micaceous,pyritic,gray lithified siltstone
Environment:pond
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:mold/impression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Stan Wood
Collection method comments: Repository: National Museums Scotland (NMS)
Metadata
Also known as:Whiteadder Water near Chirnside
Database number:183472
Authorizer:R. Butler, M. Clapham Enterer:E. Dunne, M. Clapham
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2016-12-26 10:49:27 Last modified:2018-08-24 22:53:16
Access level:the public Released:2016-12-26 10:49:27
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

66369. A. J. Ross, G. D. Edgecombe, N. D. Clark, C. E. Bennett, V. Carrió, R. Contreras-Izquierdo, and B. Crighton. 2018. A new terrestrial millipede fauna of earliest Carboniferous (Tournaisian) age from southeastern Scotland helps fill ‘Romer's Gap'. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh [C. Labandeira/S. Schachat/S. Schachat]

Secondary references:

61276 J. A. Clack, C. E. Bennett, D. K. Carpenter, S. J. Davies, N. C. Fraser, T. I. Kearsey, J. E. A. Marshall, D. Millward, B. K. A. Otoo, E. J. Reeves, A. J. Ross, M. Ruta, K. Z. Smithson, T. R. Smithson, and S. A. Walsh. 2016. Phylogenetic and environmental context of a Tournaisian tetrapod fauna. Nature Ecology & Evolution 1(0002) [R. Butler/E. Dunne/P. Wagner]