Bearsden locality (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Bearsden Manse Burn locality

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.4° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.7° S, 0.4° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: E1 zone, Shrimp Member (Manse Burn Formation), Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• “The Manse Burn Formation has been dated as Pendleian (Namurian) E1 Zone, based on spore, conodont, and goniatite analysis. Clark defined the Formation as including the shales from the Top Hosie Limestone Marine Band to the bas of the first thick sandstone. The Formation has been subdivided into six members on the basis of the fossil content and sedimentological characteristics of the shales: the Shrimp member, the Posidonia Member, the Nodular Shale Member, The Platey Shale Member, the Betwixt Member, and the Lingular Member. These Members correspond approximately to the ‘beds’ presented by Wood (1982)”

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; shale

• "The shales of the Manse burn formation are considered to have been deposited during conditions of varying salinity and oxygenation. The Shrimp Member bears evidence of a sequentially marine and non-marine environment, subject to seasonal fluctuations." (Coates 1993)
• "The fossil fish, and an abundance of crustaceans, are contained in finely laminated shales of the Shrimp Member […] (Clark 1989). The shales of the Manse burn formation are considered to have been deposited during conditions of varying salinity and oxygenation." (Coates 1993)

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 . 1993. New actinopterygian fish from the Namurian Manse Burn Formation of Bearsden, Scotland. Palaeontology 36(1):123-146 [M. Coates/M. Coates]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 195566: authorized by Michael Coates, entered by Michael Coates on 13.08.2018

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
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Frederichthys musadentatus
Frederichthys musadentatus Coates 1993
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