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
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 6440: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.03.2000
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Foraminifera | |
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Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895 | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Stacheia sp. Brady 1876 | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Holothuroidea | |
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Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Gastropoda | |
"Aclisina pulchra" = Donaldina pulchra
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"Bucaniopsis sp." = Bucanopsis
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Strophomenata | |
Eomarginifera longispinus Sowerby 1814 | |
Pustula pustulosa Phillips 1836 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Crurithyris urei Fleming 1828 | |
Lingulata | |
Lingula squamiformis Phillips 1836 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 | |
Ostracoda | |
Paraparchites okeni ostracod |