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
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Woodesmus sheari n. gen., n. sp.
Ross et al. 2018
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1 specimen | |||||||||
NMS G. 2012.39.10 (WOOD G762A, B1–3) | ||||||||||
Myriapoda
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? Juliformia informal indet. 4
Attems 1926
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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] |