Also known as Corncockle Muir, Dumfries, Annandale
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.2° N, 3.4° W: paleocoordinates 11.2° N, 13.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Corncockle Sandstone Formation (Stewartry Group), Cisuralian (298.9 - 272.3 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown, red sandstone
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: trace
Collected by Carruthers, H. Duncan in 1813–1814, 1824, 1827
Collection methods: surface (in situ),
Primary reference: H. Girard. 1846. Über die Fährten vorweltlicher Thiere im Sandstein, insbesondere von Chirotherium [On the tracks of prehistoric animals in sandstone, especially Chirotherium]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1846:1-22 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 174685: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 24.11.2015, edited by Bethany Allen
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
"Testudo duncani n. sp." = Chelichnus duncani3, Herpetichnus bucklandi n. sp.1, Chelichnus gigas n. sp.1, "Herpetichnus sauroplesius n. gen. n. sp." = Chelichnus bucklandi1, Chelichnus titan2
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