Burnmouth Locality (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 2.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 30.2° S, 9.7° W (Wright 2013)

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

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: permineralized

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),

Primary reference: A. C. Scott, J. Galtier, and G. Clayton. 1984. Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 75:311-340 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10655: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 08.06.2001, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland

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Taxonomic list

• The list represents a ""composite"" on containing records from loose pebbles as well as from in situ blocks so the assembledge may not be regarded as an exclusive one.
Cladoxylopsida
 Pseudosporochnales -
 Coenopteridales -
 Cordaitales -
Eristophyton sp. Zalessky 1911
Lepidocarpaceae
  - Lepidocarpaceae
Achlamydocarpon scoticum n. sp.2
Megasporophyll, megasporangia, megaspores
Ginkgoopsida
 Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae
Lyrasperma scotica1 Calder 1938
Type erected in Long (1960)
Lyginorachis papilio
  -
Lyginorachis papilio Kidston 1923
Eurystoma
  -
Lepidocarpon
  -
Lepidocarpon sp. Scott 1900
Osteichthyes
 Dipnoi -
Xylognathus macrustenus3 Smithson et al. 2016 lungfish
Holotype UMZC 2014.1.4a, b.