Burnmouth Ross end cliffs (341 m) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 2.1° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 1.2° W)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ballagan Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• "Mid­ Tournaisian."

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: mire or swamp; lithified, black, gray, sandy siltstone

• "marsh to semi-permanent water body"
• "A complex 15 cm thick grey­black sandy siltstone that overlies a gleyed palaeosol and grades upwards into a laminated grey siltstone with brecciation cracks."

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Repository: University Museum of Zoology Cambridge

Primary reference: 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]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195789: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 24.08.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Diploradus austiumensis
Diploradus austiumensis Clack et al. 2016 tetrapod
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.
Myriapoda
 Archidesmida -
Archidesmida "indet. 1"
Archidesmida "indet. 1" Wilson and Anderson 2004 millipede
UMZC 2013.5 (WOOD 4267A,B)