Oxroad Bay Exposure B (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 1.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

When: CM palynozone zone, Sunnyside/Rhodes Limestone Member (Garlton Hills VolcanicsGarlton Hills Volcanics Formation), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• 17 plane laminate horizons, alternating from siltstone to sandstone with varying induration. Structures include ripples, flutes, dessication cracks, and gradation.

•Scottish Midland Valley

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; sandstone and siltstone

• the predominance of thin, plane-bedded, upward fining laminae and lack of channels, these indicate depostion in a lake that was sufficiently extensive to allow wave development, but sufficiently shallow to allow considerable periodic decreases in volume by evapouration.
• Siltstone and sandstone with ripples, flutes, grading, dessication cracks

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, recrystallized, permineralized

Collection methods: surface (in situ), mechanical, peel or thin section,

• Occurence data from reference #3954

Primary reference: R. M. Bateman and A.C. Scott. 1990. A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 2. Volcanicity, palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 81:161-194 [H. Sims/J. Allen/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10672: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 10.06.2001, edited by Jason Cassara

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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unclassified
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Setispora pannosa, Plantae "Organ 1", Plantae "Organ 2", Plantae "Organ 3"
Plantae "Organ 1" Haeckel 1866
organs of uncertain biological function and taxonomic affinity
Plantae "Organ 2" Haeckel 1866
organs of uncertain biological function and taxonomic affinity
Plantae "Organ 3" Haeckel 1866
organs of uncertain biological function and taxonomic affinity
Telangiopsis
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cf. Telangiopsis bifida
Pteropsida
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? Pteropsida "Stem 1", ? Pteropsida "Foliage 1"
Cladoxylopsida
 Pseudosporochnales -
Cladoxylon cf. waltonii
Gymnospermopsida
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? Gymnospermopsida "Stem 2", ? Gymnospermopsida "Petiole 1", ? Gymnospermopsida "Petiole 2", ? Gymnospermopsida "Sphenopterid foliage 1", ? Gymnospermopsida "Sphenopterid foliage 2", ? Gymnospermopsida "Sphenopterid foliage 3", ? Gymnospermopsida "Ovulate cupule 2", ? Gymnospermopsida "Ovule 2", ? Gymnospermopsida "Ovule 3"