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
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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Malacostraca | |
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Osteichthyes | |
Casineria kiddi n. gen. n. sp.
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Wardichthys cyclosoma Traquair 1875 |