East Kirkton (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as ETE Locality 121, Bathgate, East Kirkton,

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.6° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 28.2° S, 9.5° W (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: VF palynozone zone, East Kirkton Limestone Member, Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: spring; limestone and shale

• East Kirkton represents a series of volcanic hydrothermal springs and ponds (A. McGowan personal knowledge)
• ETE lithology comments: extraordinary range of lithologies includes tuffs, various limestones, s

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: Limited geological information in Scott (1990)

Primary reference: A. C. Scott. 1990. Preservation, evolution and extinction of plants in Lower Carboniferous volcanic sequences in Scotland. In: M.G. Lockley and A. Rice, eds. Volcanism and Fossil Biotas. Geological Society of America Special Paper 244:25-38 [B. DiMichele/B. DiMichele/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 21323: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Richard Bateman on 07.06.1991, edited by Sophie Fasey

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Taxonomic list

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Actinopteri
 Actinopteri -
Actinopteri "Species C"1, Actinopteri "Juvenile material"1
Osteichthyes
 Palaeonisciformes - Cosmoptychiidae
Cosmoptychius sp.3
Cosmoptychius sp.3 Traquair 1877
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys sp.2, Rhadinichthys carinatus3
Rhadinichthys sp.2 Traquair 1877
NMS 1993.6.9
Rhadinichthys carinatus3 Agassiz 1835
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Eurynotus sp.1
Eurynotus sp.1 Agassiz 1835
NMS G 1993.6.30; 1993.6.28, 1993.6.29
 Actinopterygii -
Mesopoma sp.3
Mesopoma sp.3 R. H. Traquair 1890 ray-finned fish
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys robisoni3
Elonichthys robisoni3 Hibbert 1835 ray-finned fish
 Elonichthyiformes - Acrolepidae
Watsonichthys sp.3
Watsonichthys sp.3 Aldinger 1937 ray-finned fish
1Coates 1993; 2Henderson et al. 2023; 3Sallan and Coates 2010