Bed 2, Wardie B, north of Edinburgh (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Granton, near Edinburgh (BMNH)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 4.0° S, 0.3° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Wardie shales Member (Gullane Formation), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• Calciferous Sandstones. Lower Oil-Shale Group (Holkerian-Asbian) of the Lower Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone Measures

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine; lithified, ferruginous shale and lithified, nodular ironstone

• They are largely non-marine and were apparently deposited in a large freshwater or brackish lake extending into West Lothian and Fife and as far as the Pentland Hills. This lake, however, was subject to a periodic marine influence from the east, which became more manifest through time. Marine fossils in the Edinburgh district are confined to thin bands only.
• "Shale, mainly

•"Strata with two thin bands of dark limestone and locally two thin beds of tuff"

•"The bedding planes were deeply iron stained [...] [fish fossils] are always enclosed by a good margin of ironstone"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: concretion

Reposited in the BMNH

Primary reference: S. P. Wood. 1975. Recent discoveries of Carboniferous fishes in Edinburgh. Scottish Journal of Geology 11(3):251-258 [E. Dunne/S. Fasey]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 230473: authorized by Emma Dunne, entered by Sophie Fasey on 23.06.2023

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Taxonomic list

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Osteichthyes
 Rhizodontiformes - Rhizodontidae
Rhizodus hibberti
Rhizodus hibberti Agassiz 1843 lobe-finned fish
 Elonichthyiformes - Elonichthyidae
Elonichthys robisoni
Elonichthys robisoni Hibbert 1835 ray-finned fish
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Wardichthys cyclosoma n. gen. n. sp.
Wardichthys cyclosoma n. gen. n. sp. Traquair 1875
 Palaeonisciformes - Palaeoniscidae
Nematoptychius greenocki, Gonatodus punctatus
Gonatodus punctatus Agassiz 1835
 Palaeonisciformes - Rhadinichthyidae
Rhadinichthys carinatus
 Palaeonisciformes - Cosmoptychiidae
Cosmoptychius striatus
 Palaeoniscimorpha -
"Eurynotus crenatus" = Notacmon crenatus
"Eurynotus crenatus" = Notacmon crenatus Gistel 1848
Chondrichthyes
 Ichthyotomi - Cladodontidae
Cladodontidae indet.
 Ctenacanthiformes - Ctenacanthidae
Ctenacanthidae indet.
Ctenacanthidae indet. Dean 1909 elasmobranch
 Acanthodiformes - Acanthodidae
Acanthodes sulcatus
Acanthodes sulcatus Agassiz 1835 spiny fish