Shrimp bed, Bearsden locality (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 1.5° S, 2.5° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Shrimp Member (Manse Burn Formation), Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• "Pendleian (Serpukhovian) E1 Zone". The Manse Burn Formation is sometimes treated as a synonym for the Limestone Coal Formation, or as a separate formation within the Limestone Coal Group

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by S. P. Wood in 1981 and 1982

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

• Repository: Hunterian Museum (HM)

Primary reference: M. I. Coates and S. E. K. Sequeira. 2001. A new stethacanthid chondrichthyan from the Lower Carboniferous of Bearsden, Scotland. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 21(3):438-459 [S. Peters/S. McMullen/P. Novack-Gottshall]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 134654: authorized by Shanan Peters, entered by Sharon McMullen on 12.10.2012, edited by Carrie Schweitzer and Phil Novack-Gottshall

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Chondrichthyes
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes sp. Agassiz 1833 spiny fish
 Hybodontiformes - Tristychiidae
Tristychius sp. Agassiz 1837 elasmobranch
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
Akmonistion zangerli n. gen. n. sp.
Akmonistion zangerli n. gen. n. sp. Coates and Sequeira 2001 elasmobranch
Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
Trawdenia sp. Coates and Tietjen 2018 ray-finned fish
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
Watsonichthys sp. Aldinger 1937 ray-finned fish
Actinopteri
  -
Palaeophoxinus sp. Coates 1988
Woodichthys sp. Coates 1998
misspelled as "Woodlichthys"
Melanecta sp. Coates 1998
Osteichthyes
 Rhizodontiformes -
Rhizodontiformes indet. Andrews and Westoll 1970 lobe-finned fish
"rhizodont"
Coelacanthimorpha
 Coelacanthiformes -
Coelacanthiformes indet. Berg 1937 coelacanth
"coelacanth"
Ostracoda
 Myodocopida -
Myodocopida indet. Sars 1866 ostracod
"myodocopid"
Malacostraca
 Euphausiacea - Anthracophausiidae
"Palaemysis sp." = Anthracophausia
"Palaemysis sp." = Anthracophausia
 Eumalacostraca - Tealliocarididae
Tealliocaris sp. Peach 1908
 Aeschronectida - Aratidecthidae
Crangopsis sp. Salter 1863
Multicrustacea
 Cyclida - Americlidae
Americlus rankini Woodward 1869
Myriapoda
 Diplopoda -
Diplopoda indet. Gervais 1844 millipede
"millipede"
Bivalvia
 Nuculida -
Nuculida indet. Dall 1889 clam
"nuculid spat"
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Septimyalina sp. Newell 1942 clam
Cephalopoda
  -
Cephalopoda "orthocone" Cuvier 1797
"orthocone"
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea "indet. B" Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
"nautiloid"