Second Abden Shale, Level 19 (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 2.5° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Second Abden Shale Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Brigantian age was shown by Brindley and Spinner 1989, Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc. 47:215-231

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty, sandy shale

• Sediments were deposited in a gap between periods of volcanic activity, the series represents a transgression from tidal-flat to subtidal environment.
• thin sections of the shale show it to consist predominantly of clay minerals with varying admixtures of sand and silt sized particles, normally quartz but with some chlorite and feldspar...interlaminations of fine sandy material in their more argillaceous basic substance.

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section, sieve,

Primary reference: L. Ferguson. 1962. The paleoecology of a Lower Carboniferous marine transgression. Journal of Paleontology 36:1090-1107 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6341: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 28.02.2000

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Pseudorthocerida - Pseudorthoceratidae
Pseudorthoceras aff. knoxense
Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Soleniscidae
"Soleniscus brevis" = Strobeus brevis
"Soleniscus brevis" = Strobeus brevis White 1881 snail
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblopteria ornata
Lingulata
 Lingulida - Lingulidae
"Lingula squamiformis" = Lingularia squamiformis
"Lingula squamiformis" = Lingularia squamiformis Phillips 1836