Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 3.9° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° S, 20.6° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
• local area-level geographic resolution
When: Patrick Burn Formation (Priesthill Group), Llandovery to Llandovery (443.4 - 427.4 Ma)
• Jamoytius horizon.
• member-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marginal marine; siltstone and siliciclastic
Collection methods: "The marine shells [which are in the turbidites] are not in the same beds as the vertebrates or the eurypterids [which are in the laminated siltstones]."
Primary reference: R. E. Plotnick. 1999. Habitat of Llandoverian-Lochkovian eurypterids. In A. J. Boucot, J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities - a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 106-136 [M. Foote/M. Foote/P. Wagner]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 26886: authorized by Michael Foote, entered by Michael Foote on 07.11.2002
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
"Metazoa indet." = Animalia
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Scorpionida | |
Scorpionida indet. scorpion | |
Malacostraca | |
Euchelicerata | |
Erettopterus bilobus Salter 1856 eurypterid | |
Slimonia acuminata Salter 1856 eurypterid | |
Nanahughmilleria lanceolata eurypterid | |
? Hardieopterus lanarkensis eurypterid | |
Xiphosura | |
Xiphosurida indet. Latreille 1802 | |
Gastropoda | |
Euomphalopterus sp. Roemer 1876 snail | |
unclassified | |
? Tunicata indet. Lamarck 1816 | |
Anaspida | |
Logania | |
Logania sp. Gross 1967 |