Dykes, Kilbirnie (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 4.7° W: paleocoordinates 2.3° S, 1.8° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Blackbyre Limestone Member (Lower Limestone Formation), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

Reposited in the BGS

Primary reference: J. D. Longstaff. 1933. A revision of the British Carboniferous Loxonematidae, with descriptions of new forms. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 89(2):87-124 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 183271: authorized by Pete Wagner, entered by Pete Wagner on 08.12.2016

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Palaeozygopleuridae
"Zygopleura benniana" = Palaeozygopleura benniana
"Zygopleura benniana" = Palaeozygopleura benniana Longstaff 1933 snail
 Cerithimorpha - Orthonemidae
"Knightia irregularis n. gen. n. sp." = Knightella irregularis
"Knightia irregularis n. gen. n. sp." = Knightella irregularis Longstaff 1933 snail
 Zygopleuroidea - Pseudozygopleuridae
"Zygopleura rugifera" = Nodozyga rugifera, "Katosira smithiana n. sp." = Pseudozygopleura smithiana
"Zygopleura rugifera" = Nodozyga rugifera Phillips 1836 snail
Zygopleura n. ssp. rugifera cylindracea
"Katosira smithiana n. sp." = Pseudozygopleura smithiana Longstaff 1933 snail