Cheese Bay Shrimp Bed (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Gullane bed c

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 2.8° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 0.6° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Gullane Formation (Strathclyde Group), Asbian (339.4 - 336.0 Ma)

• "The Shrimp Bed is a localized facies [...] bounded by the Garleton Hills Volcanic Rocks and the MacGregor Marine Bands. It is considered to be equivalent in age to the Wardie Shales in which the snake-like tetrapod Lethiscus was found."

•Palynostratigraphical the Shrimp Bed is located within the Perotrilites tessellatus/Schulzospora campyloptera zone (TC).

•Supplementary data on litho- and chronostratigraphy from Table 1 in Galtier et al. (1993, Spec. Paper Paleont. 49, pp. 57-74)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: dolomite and lime mudstone

• "The laminated dolomites and mudstones containing the Shrimp Bed were probably deposited in a thermally stratified freshwater lake or brackish lagoon"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: R. L. Paton, T. R. Smithson, and J. A. Clack. 1999. An amniote-like skeleton from the Early Carboniferous of Scotland. Nature 398:508-513 [J. Mueller/T. Liebrecht/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 84940: authorized by Johannes Mueller, entered by Torsten Liebrecht on 18.11.2008, edited by Matthew Carrano and Sophie Fasey

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Taxonomic list

• "The shrimp Tealliocaris is abundant [...] The fauna also includes hydroids, scorpions and occasional specimens of fishes found elsewhere in the Scottish Viséan."
Malacostraca
 Eumalacostraca - Tealliocarididae
Tealliocaris sp. Peach 1908
"abundant"
Osteichthyes
 Tetrapoda -
Casineria kiddi n. gen. n. sp.
Casineria kiddi n. gen. n. sp. Paton et al. 1999 tetrapod
NMS G1993.54.1 (type)
 Palaeonisciformes - Platysomidae
Wardichthys cyclosoma Traquair 1875