Second Abden Shale, Level 116 (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 6454: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Foraminifera
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
Anthozoa
 Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Clisiophyllum keyserlingi McCoy 1849 horn coral
Draffania biloba
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Draffania biloba Cummings 1957
Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Holothuroidea
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Holothuroidea indet. de Blainville 1834 sea cucumber
sclerite
Bivalvia
 Ostreida - Pterineidae
 Pectinida - Pterinopectinidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Productidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Pustula pustulosa Phillips 1836
 Strophomenida - Chonetidae
Rhynchonellata
 Spiriferida - Spiriferidae
Stenolaemata
 Cystoporida - Sulcoreteporidae
Ostracoda
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Platycopida - Paraparchitidae