Burnmouth Ross end cliffs (341 m): Tournaisian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Myriapoda - Archidesmida
Archidesmida informal indet. 1 Wilson and Anderson 2004
Ross et al. 2018 1 specimen
UMZC 2013.5 (WOOD 4267A,B)
unclassified
Diploradus austiumensis Clack et al. 2016
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]