Second Abden Shale, Level 119 (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 6457: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.03.2000

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Taxonomic list

unclassified
  -
Polychaeta
 Sabellida - Serpulidae
Spirorbis spp. Daudin 1800
Stenolaemata
 Rhabdomesida - Rhomboporidae
 Rhabdomesida - Rhabdomesidae
Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
 Productida - Echinoconchidae
Ostracoda
 Palaeocopida - Serenididae
 Podocopida - Healdiidae
 Podocopida - Acratiidae
Crinoidea
  -
Crinoidea indet. Miller 1821 Sea lily
Echinoidea
  -
Echinoidea indet. Leske 1778 sea urchin
  - Archaeocidaridae
"Echinocrinus urei" = Archaeocidaris
"Echinocrinus urei" = Archaeocidaris sea urchin
Draffania biloba
  -
Draffania biloba Cummings 1957
Rhodophyceae
  - Aoujgaliaceae
Foraminifera
 Ammodiscoidea - Ammodiscidae
Glomospira sp. Rzehak 1895
 Tetrataxoidea - Tetrataxidae
 Tetrataxoidea - Valvulinellidae
 Fusulinina - Earlandiidae
 Endothyroidea - Endothyridae
 Palaeotextularoidea - Palaeotextulariidae