Posidonia Member, Bearsden locality (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Manse Burn Posidonia bed, Bed B of Clark, 1989

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.9° N, 4.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° S, 3.1° E)

• coordinate based on political unit

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Posidonia Member (Limestone Coal Formation), Serpukhovian (330.9 - 323.2 Ma)

• "Carboniferous (Serpukhovian)". The Limestone Coal Formation is sometimes treated as a synonym for the Manse Burn Formation

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; shale

• The Posidonia Member is more marine in character than the [underlying] Shrimp Member. "The Posidonia Member represents a temporary transgressive period in the development of the basin where more marine water entered bringing faunal change"
• "finely laminated shales"

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, replaced with pyrite

Collected by S. P. Wood in 1981 and 1982

Collection methods: quarrying,

• Repository: Hunterian Museum (HM)

Primary reference: N. D. L. Clark, R. M. Feldmann, F. R. Schram and C. E. Schweitzer. 2020. Redescription of Americlus rankini (Woodward, 1868) (Pancrustacea: Cyclida: Americlidae) and interpretation of its systematic placement, morphology, and paleoecology. Journal of Crustacean Biology 1-13 [C. Schweitzer/C. Schweitzer]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 235483: authorized by Phil Novack-Gottshall, entered by Phil Novack-Gottshall on 11.07.2024

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
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Cephalopoda "orthocone"
Cephalopoda "orthocone" Cuvier 1797
"orthocone"
 Nautiloidea -
Nautiloidea indet.
Nautiloidea indet. Agassiz 1847 nautiloid
"nautiloid"
Gastropoda
  -
Gastropoda indet.
Gastropoda indet. Cuvier 1795 snail
Bivalvia
 Myalinida - Myalinidae
Myalina sp.
Myalina sp. de Koninck 1842 clam
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblochondria sp.
Streblochondria sp. Newell 1938 scallop
 Ostreida - Posidoniidae
Posidonia sp.
Posidonia sp. Bronn 1828 oyster
Sedentaria
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis sp.
Spirorbis sp. Daudin 1800
"plant with Spirorbis"
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Ambocoeliidae
Crurithyris sp.
Crurithyris sp. George 1931
Malacostraca
 Archaeostraca - Rhinocarididae
Dithyrocaris sp.
 Stomatopoda - Tyrannophontidae
Tyrannophontes sp.
Tyrannophontes sp. Schram 1969 mantis shrimp
Crinoidea
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? Woodocrinus sp.
? Woodocrinus sp. de Koninck and Lehon 1854 Sea lily
Gnathostomata
 Crossopterygii - Osteolepidae
Megalichthys sp.
Megalichthys sp. Agassiz 1835
Chondrichthyes
 Iniopterygia -
Iniopterygia indet.
Iniopterygia indet. Zangerl and Case 1973 cartilaginous fish
"Iiiopterygian"
 Helodontiformes - Helodontidae
Helodus sp.
Helodus sp. Agassiz 1838 chimaera
 Menaspiformes - Deltoptychiidae
Deltoptychius sp.
Deltoptychius sp. Morris and Roberts 1862 chimaera
misspelled as "Deltoptichus"
 Bradyodontida -
Bradyodontida indet.
Bradyodontida indet. Woodward 1921 cartilaginous fish
"bradyodont"
 Symmoriiformes - Falcatidae
Falcatus sp., Denaea sp.
Falcatus sp. Lund 1985 elasmobranch
Denaea sp. Pruvost 1922 elasmobranch
misspelled as "Denae"
 Symmoriiformes - Symmoriidae
cf. Orestiacanthus sp.
cf. Orestiacanthus sp. Lund 1984 elasmobranch
"orestiacanthid"
Osteichthyes
 Osteolepiformes - Megalichthyidae
Rhizodopsis sp.
Rhizodopsis sp. Young 1866 lobe-finned fish
Actinopteri
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Frederichthys sp., Woodichthys sp.
Frederichthys sp. Coates 1993
Woodichthys sp. Coates 1998
misspelled as "Woodlichthys"
Osteichthyes
 Eurynotiformes - Amphicentridae
"Amphicentrum sp." = Chirodus
"Amphicentrum sp." = Chirodus M'Coy 1848
 Guildayichthyiformes -
Guildayichthyiformes indet.
Guildayichthyiformes indet. Lund 2000
misspelled as "Guilayichthyform"
Conodonta
  -
Conodonta indet.
Conodonta indet. Pander 1856 conodont
"conodonts"
unclassified
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Plantae indet.
Plantae indet. Haeckel 1866
"plant with Spirorbis"