Burnmouth Ross end cliffs (341 m): Tournaisian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Myriapoda
- Archidesmida
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Archidesmida informal indet. 1
Wilson and Anderson 2004
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Ross et al. 2018 | 1 specimen | ||||||||
UMZC 2013.5 (WOOD 4267A,B) | ||||||||||
unclassified
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Diploradus austiumensis
Clack et al. 2016
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Attributed specimen: UMZC 2016.4 a and b. The anterior end of a mandible from 341 m above the base of the Ballagan Formation at Burnmouth. | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland |
Coordinates: | 55.8° North, 2.1° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 10.3° South, 1.2° West | ||
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||
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 | ||||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: "Mid Tournaisian." |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | black,gray lithified sandy siltstone |
Lithology description: "A complex 15 cm thick greyblack sandy siltstone that overlies a gleyed palaeosol and grades upwards into a laminated grey siltstone with brecciation cracks." | |
Environment: | mire/swamp |
Geology comments: "marsh to semi-permanent water body" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
Collection method comments: Repository: University Museum of Zoology Cambridge |
Metadata
Database number: | 195789 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Clapham | Enterer: | M. Clapham |
Modifier: | M. Clapham | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2018-08-24 20:11:42 | Last modified: | 2018-08-24 22:42:01 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2018-08-24 20:11:42 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
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] |
Secondary references:
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] |