Auchenreoch Glen: Ivorian, United Kingdom
collected 1971
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Haeckel 1866
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"plant debris" | ||||||||||
Polychaeta
- Sabellida
- Serpulidae
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Spirorbis sp.
Daudin 1800
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Osteichthyes
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Osteichthyes indet.
Huxley 1880
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"fish...debris" | ||||||||||
Whatcheeriidae
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Pederpes finneyae n. gen., n. sp.
Clack 2002
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1 individual | |||||||||
GLAHMS 100815; orig. ID as rhizodont fish | ||||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland |
Coordinates: | 56.0° North, 4.5° West (view map) | ||
Paleocoordinates: | 9.2° South, 2.2° 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: | Ivorian | ||
Age range of interval: | 353.80000 - 345.30000 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Geological group: | Inverclyde | Formation: | Ballagan | ||
Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
Stratigraphy comments: claviger-macra (CM) palynozone (possibly from the lower part of this zone); Tournaisian Tn3c |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | fine,concretionary,gray argillaceous "limestone" |
Secondary lithology: | calcareous mudstone |
Includes fossils? | Y |
Lithology description: "The formation consists of pale grey, fine- grained nodular cementstones with calcareous mudstones and limestones. The specimen is preserved in a clayey limestone nodule typical of a cementstone facies." | |
Environment: | lagoonal |
Geology comments: "shallow-water environment, probably a lagoon or coastal flat that was subject to marked fluctuations in salinity and periodic desiccation" |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Degree of concentration: | dispersed |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils |
Preservation of anatomical detail: | excellent |
Abundance in sediment: | rare |
Fragmentation: | occasional |
Temporal resolution: | snapshot |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | field collection |
Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis | Collection dates: | 1971 |
Metadata
Database number: | 106270 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Carrano | Enterer: | M. Carrano |
Modifier: | E. Dunne | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-03-05 02:13:32 | Last modified: | 2015-10-21 10:02:47 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-03-05 02:13:32 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
35414. | ETE | J. A. Clack. 2002. An early tetrapod from "Romer’s Gap". Nature 418:72-76 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano] |
Secondary references:
56697 | J. A. Clack and S. M. Finney. 2005. Pederpes finneyae, and articulated tetrapod from the Tournaisian of Western Scotland. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2(4):311-346 [R. Butler/E. Dunne] |