Also known as ETE Locality 1604
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 2.0° S, 2.5° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• basin-level geographic resolution
When: East Kirkton Limestone Member (East Kirkton Limestone Formation), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)
• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min. Bed 82 - bed "b"; lower part of Brigantian
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: spring; black shale and limestone
Size class: macrofossils
Collected by S. P. Wood in 1988; reposited in the BMNH
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ), mechanical,
• ETE reference list: 478, 479, 483, 482
•NMS (National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh), UMZC (University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge), and GLAHM (Hunerian Museum, Glasgow) collections
Primary reference: W. D. I. Rolfe, G. P. Durant, A. E. Fallick, A. J. Hall, D. J. Large, A. C. Scott, T. R. Smithson and G. M. Walkden. 1990. An early terrestrial biota preserved by Visean vulcanicity in Scotland. In M.G. Lockley, A. Rice (eds.), Volcanism and Fossil Biotas 244:13-24 [B. DiMichele/B. DiMichele/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 22725: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by Matthew Carrano, Roger Benson and Bryan Gee
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Osteichthyes | |
Silvanerpeton miripedes n. gen. n. sp.1
Silvanerpeton miripedes n. gen. n. sp.1 Clack 1994 tetrapod ETE occurrence; species: Anthracosauridae
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Amphibia | |
Temnospondyli "large taxon"5 von Zittel 1887 tetrapod NMS G 1987.7.41 (anterior thoracic rib in nodular limestone), 42 (anterior thoracic rib in limestone), 33.1 (thoracic rib)
Balanerpeton woodi n. gen. n. sp.5 Milner and Sequeira 1994 tetrapod ETE occurrence; species: Temnondyli
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Osteichthyes | |
Ophiderpeton kirktonense n. sp.4
Ophiderpeton kirktonense n. sp.4 Milner 1994 tetrapod NMS G 1988.3.1 (holotype anterior part of skeleton with skull); 1987.7.54 (c.13 articulated trunk vertebrae in slabs of laminated limestone); BMNH R12019 (c. 17 articulated trunk vertebrae in blocks of ostracod limestone from north spoil heap); S. P. Wood uncat. (c. 23 articulated trunk vertebrae from 'contorted limestone' horizon, north spoil heap)
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"Loxommatidae indet." = Baphetidae
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Westlothiana lizziae n. gen. n. sp.6 Smithson and Rolfe 1990 tetrapod ETE occurrence; species: Reptilia
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Myriapoda | |
Arachnida | |
Brigantibunum listoni n. gen. n. sp.3
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