No. 2 Ironstone, Loanhead, Midlothian (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 3.1° W)

• Paleocoordinates: 9.7° S, 0.3° E (Wright 2013)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Limestone Coal Formation (Clackmannan Group), Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• unclear whether the specimens are from the Rumbles Ironstone ("No. 2 Blackband Ironstone) or Loanhead #2 Ironstone

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; ironstone and limestone

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: Some specimens reside in RSM (Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh).

Primary reference: C. D. Waterston. 1968. Further observations on the Scottish Carboniferous eurypterids. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 68(1):1-20 [R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick/R. Plotnick]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 225499: authorized by Roy Plotnick, entered by Roy Plotnick on 12.05.2022, edited by Sophie Fasey

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Taxonomic list

• RSM 1967/13/1 Acherontiscus caledoniae is though to have come from this location based on sediment analysis (Carroll, 1969)
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Osteichthyes
 Actinopterygii - Haplolepidae
Blairolepis loanheadensis2
Blairolepis loanheadensis2 Lowney 1983 ray-finned fish
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys ornatissimus1
Rhadinichthys ornatissimus1 Agassiz 1835
NMS 1891.111.14
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Nematoptychius greenocki1
Nematoptychius greenocki1 Traquair 1866
NMS 1885.50.56
 Palaeoniscimorpha -
"Eurynotus microlepidotus" = Notacmon microlepidotus3
"Eurynotus microlepidotus" = Notacmon microlepidotus3 Traquair 1890
NMS 1926.57.47, 1886.90.40; NHM P.11698, P.11669
Euchelicerata
 Eurypterida - Mycteropidae
Mycterops blairi
Mycterops blairi Waterston 1968 eurypterid
RSM 1886.85.52 (Holotype)
1Henderson et al. 2023; 2Lowney 1983; 3Sallan and Coates 2013