Dunure (BMNH collection) (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.4° N, 4.8° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 11.9° S, 32.2° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• Siegenian

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified siltstone

• Pollard and Walker (1994) subsequently reinterpreted the depositional environment of the sediments as lacustrine and agreed with Kokelaar’s (1982) hypothesis that the andesite lava was emplaced by subsurface invasion. The sediments from Dunure are frequently rippled and show examples of dewatering structures, desiccation cracks and foam marks, indicative of a land/water interface or strand line paleoenvironment (Pollard and Walker, 1984).
• Small patches of finely laminated red and gray siltstones, mudstones and fine sandstones associated with porphyritic andesite sheets.

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by J. Smith; reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: S. G. Brade-Birks. 1923. Notes on Myriapoda, xxxviii. Kampecaris tuberculata, n. sp., from the Old Red Sandstone of Ayrshire. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 20:277-280 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 120607: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Jered Karr on 18.11.2011, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Myriapoda
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"Kampecaris tuberculata n. sp." = Palaeodesmus tuberculata
"Kampecaris tuberculata n. sp." = Palaeodesmus tuberculata Brade-Birks 1923 millipede
NHM In. 23803