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 6450: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.03.2000, edited by Pete Wagner
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Sedentaria | |
Spirorbis spp. Daudin 1800 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestellidae indet. King 1850 | |
Rhynchonellata | |
Schizophoria sp. King 1850 | |
Strophomenata | |
Pustula pustulosa Phillips 1836 | |
Eomarginifera longispinus Sowerby 1814 | |
Productidae indet. Gray 1840 | |
Ostracoda | |
Paraparchites okeni ostracod | |
Healdia cornigera ostracod | |
Bairdia hisingeri ostracod | |
Monoceratina youngiana ostracod | |
Crinoidea | |
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily | |
Echinoidea | |
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin | |
Holothuroidea | |
Holothuroidea indet. de Blainville 1834 sea cucumber | |
Rhodophyceae | |
Foraminifera | |
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895 | |
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