Loch Humphrey Burn Locality (Carboniferous to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 8.3° S, 1.9° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Tn 3-Pu/Tc zone, Hastarian to Hastarian (358.9 - 336.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: fluvial-lacustrine; lithified, volcaniclastic shale

• The whole sequence of beds reflects a number of environments including lake, floodplain and channel.
• 30 metres were trenched. Most of the sequence consists of waterlain volcanogenic sediments with subsidiary clastic adn organic sedimentary rocks. Black shale and limestone below are intrepreted as lake sediments. Toward the top alluvial sediments predominate, poorly laminated silts with abundan plant remains upward fining, erosionally based conglomerates are interpretted as channel sediments and finer, poorly laminated shales and silts with rootlets and coaly lenses are interpreted as flood basin swamp deposits.

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized

Collection methods: quarrying, 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 10645: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 08.06.2001

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Taxonomic list

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Ginkgoopsida
 Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae
Calamopitys radiata
Geminitheca
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Geminitheca scotica
Staphylotheca kilpatrickensis
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Staphylotheca kilpatrickensis
Lyginorachis
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Lyginorachis trinervis
Calathospermum scoticum
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Calathospermum scoticum
Bilignea
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Bilignea resinosa
 Cordaitales -
Eristophyton fascicuiare, Eristophyton waltonii
Sphenopsida
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Archaeocalamites geoppertii
Alcicornopteris
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Alcicornopteris hallei
 Coenopteridales -
Etapteris tubicaulis
Etapteris tubicaulis Goeppert 1852
Protopitys
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Protopitys scotica