Willie’s Hole Bed 3 (plant bed) (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Whiteadder Water near Chirnside

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 2.2° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° S, 1.2° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Ballagan Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• Ballagan Formation, dated as Tournaisian, CM palynozone (Smithson et al. 2012; Clack et al. 2016)

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; gray siltstone

• "Perittodusapsconditus occurs within a 6cm thick laminated grey siltstone that contains a network of cracks filled with sandy siltstone identical to that of the overlying bed. Occurring within laminated siltstones, this may record an autochthonous lake dweller. Associated fossils comprise plants, actinopterygians, myriapods and ostracods. Koilops occurs within a unit comprising four beds of alternating black and green siltstone in which abundant palaeo­ sol clasts indicate erosion and transport of land­surface sediment during flooding events. ... An association between wetland palaeosols and tetrapod­ bearing facies has emerged from our studies, which is important because those horizons indicate a vegetated land surface."
• Bed 3 is a laminated micaceous grey siltstone with abundant plant remains, exposed near the base of c.1 m thick sequence containing three distinct fossiliferous horizons.

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by Stan Wood

Primary reference: T. R. Smithson and J. A. Clack. 2018. A new tetrapod from Romer’s Gap reveals an early adaptation for walking. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 108:89-97 [R. Butler/E. Dunne]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195401: authorized by Richard Butler, entered by Emma Dunne on 07.08.2018, edited by Matthew Clapham

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Mesanerpeton woodi n. gen. n. sp.
Mesanerpeton woodi n. gen. n. sp. Smithson and Clack 2018 tetrapod
NMS G. 2012.39.13 (holotype), right clavicle, humerus and ulna, with a neural arch, centrum and rib, preserved on a single block of matrix
Myriapoda
 Chilognatha -
Chilognatha "indet. 5"
Chilognatha "indet. 5" Latreille 1802 millipede
UMZC 2011.7.4a, b (WOOD G788A, B)
 Archipolypoda -
Archipolypoda "indet. 2"
Archipolypoda "indet. 2" Scudder 1882 millipede
NMS G. 2012.39.23 (WOOD G786A, B)