Also known as Rudha nam Braithairean, Brothers' Point
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.6° N, 6.1° W: paleocoordinates 47.0° N, 4.5° E)
• coordinate stated in text
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Lonfearn Member (Lealt Shale Formation), Middle Bathonian (167.7 - 164.7 Ma)
• BEd 27, about 5 m below top of formation
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lagoonal; lime mudstone
•Jagielska et al. 2022: The skeleton was embedded in a well-sorted lagoonal bioclastic limestone (rich in Neomiodon, ostracods, and conchostracans), which overlies and infills dinosaur trackways impressed in subaerially exposed mudstones.These units formed in a marginal marine/nearshore environment that fluctuated between submerged and exposed.
Size class: macrofossils
• Neomiodon, ostracods, and conchostracans
Preservation: cast, trace, replaced with phosphate
Collected by J. Andrews, J. Hudson & S. Wood in 1982-Aug 1983
Collection methods: surface (float),
• found June 1982 by J. Andrews & J. Hudson; collected August 1983 by S. P. Wood
•Jagielska et al. 2022: specimen was discovered by A.P. in 2017
Primary reference: J. E. Andrews and J. D. Hudson. 1984. First Jurassic dinosaur footprint from Scotland. Scottish Journal of Geology 20(2):129-134 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details
Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis
PaleoDB collection 61381: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.06.2006, edited by Grace Varnham
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
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Dearc sgiathanach n. gen. n. sp.2
Dearc sgiathanach n. gen. n. sp.2 Jagielska et al. 2022 pterosaur NMS G.2021.6.1-4, holotype, partial skeleton
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