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

Collection methods: quarrying, mechanical,

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 225477: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 11.05.2022

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii -
"Mesopoma pancheni n. sp." = Trawdenia pancheni, "Mesopoma carricki n. sp." = Trawdenia carricki
"Mesopoma pancheni n. sp." = Trawdenia pancheni Coates 1993 ray-finned fish
NMS 1983.33.7 (holotype); GLAHM V8283a, b; SPW 1941
"Mesopoma carricki n. sp." = Trawdenia carricki Coates 1993 ray-finned fish
GLAHM V8289a, b (holotype); NMS 1981.63.44; NMS 1981.63.46; NMS 1981.63.47; NMS 1981.63.53; NMS 1981.63.54a, b; NMS 1981.63.55a, b; NMS 1987.7.131; GLAHM V8254; BMNH P.62370, P.62372a-e; SPW 2282, SPW 2285a-c
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
? Elonichthys sp.2
? Elonichthys sp.2 Giebel 1848 ray-finned fish
NMS 1981.63.71a, b
 Actinopterygii -
Mesopoma "n. sp. A"2, Mesopoma "n. sp. B"2
Mesopoma "n. sp. A"2 R. H. Traquair 1890 ray-finned fish
NMS 1981.63.38
Mesopoma "n. sp. B"2 R. H. Traquair 1890 ray-finned fish
NMS 1981.63.48
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthyidae indet.2
Rhadinichthyidae indet.2 Romer 1945
NMS 1981.63.64
 Eurynotiformes - Amphicentridae
"Amphicentrum sp." = Chirodus2, Amphicentrum crassum1, Amphicentrum granulosum3
"Amphicentrum sp." = Chirodus2 M'Coy 1848
Amphicentrum crassum1 Traquair 1890
Actinopteri
  -
Melanecta anneae n. gen. n. sp.1, Woodichthys bearsdeni n. gen. n. sp.1
Melanecta anneae n. gen. n. sp.1 Coates 1998
GLAHM V8255 (holotype); NMS 1983.33.4
Woodichthys bearsdeni n. gen. n. sp.1 Coates 1998
NMS 1984.42.15a, b, c (holotype); NMS 1981.63.74a and b; NMS 1981.63.35; NMS 1981.63.69; NMS 1981.63.70; NMS 1981.63.72a, b and c; NMS 1983.33.2a and b; NMS 1983.33.8; NMS 1984.42.15a, b and c; NMS 1987.7.127a and b; NMS 1987.7.132a and b; NMS 1987.7.133a–f; GLAHM V8272a and b; GLAHM V8291a and b; GLAHM V8527a and b; NHMUK P.62374
1Coates 1998; 2Henderson et al. 2023; 3Sallan and Coates 2013