Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.9° N, 6.2° W: paleocoordinates 46.1° N, 4.6° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Kildonnan Member (Lealt Shale Formation), Bathonian (168.3 - 166.1 Ma)
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: estuary or bay; lithified, silty shale and lithified, shelly/skeletal limestone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Primary reference: J. D. Hudson, J. B. Riding, M. I. Wakefield and W. Walton. 1995. Jurassic Paleosalinities and Brackish-water Communities-A Case Study. Palaios 10(5):392-405 [A. Miller/D. Schramm/D. Schramm]more details
Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis
PaleoDB collection 40715: authorized by Arnold Miller, entered by Danielle Schramm on 28.06.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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"Cuspidaria ibbetsoni" = Rostrocorbula ibbetsoni
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Limnocythere sp. Brady 1868 ostracod | |
Micrhystridium sp. Deflandre 1937 acritarchs | |
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Botryococcus sp. Kutzing 1849 |