Mumbie quarry, middle fish bed (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.1° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.8° S, 0.6° E)

When: Glencartholm volcanic Member (Tyne limestone Formation), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• c. 7-8m above base of Glencartholm volcanic member

Environment/lithology: marginal marine; lithified mudstone and lithified, nodular limestone

• The middle fish bed is also 1 m thick and lies between levels 7 and 8. Level 7 contains large limey nodules without nuclei, and level 8 consists of mudstones and shale.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by S. Wood

Primary reference: M. Wood. 2018. Glencartholm revisited: describing for the first time Stan Wood's discovery and excavation of Mumbie Quarry, adjacent to the important Palaeozoic fossil site of Glencartholm. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh 108(1):47-54 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230309: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 08.06.2023

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys sp., Elonichthys serratus, Elonichthys pulcherrimus
Elonichthys sp. Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish
Elonichthys serratus Traquair 1881 ray-finned fish
Elonichthys pulcherrimus Traquair 1881 ray-finned fish
 Eurynotiformes - Amphicentridae
Proteurynotus traquairi
Proteurynotus traquairi Moy-Thomas and Bradley Dyne 1938
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Cycloptychius concentricus, Canobius elegantulus, Canobius ramsayi, Holurus parki
Canobius elegantulus Traquair 1881
Canobius ramsayi Traquair 1881
Holurus parki Traquair 1881
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys sp., Rhadinichthys canobiensis
Rhadinichthys sp. Traquair 1877