Roscobie (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as 9RS

Where: United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.5° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 2.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Charleston Main Limestone Member (Lower Limestone Formation), Brigantian (336.0 - 326.4 Ma)

Environment/lithology: offshore; limestone

• "open marine setting... offshore"
• marine beds in the formation consist of "limestone, commonly packstones and grainstones"

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: T. W. Kammer and W. I. Ausich. 2007. Stratigraphical and geographical distribution of Mississippian (Lower Carboniferous) Crinoidea from Scotland. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 98:139-150 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 90823: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.08.2009, edited by Pete Wagner

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Gastropoda
 Murchisoniina - Phymatopleuridae
Borestus wrighti n. sp. Thomas 1940 snail
 Murchisoniina - Portlockiellidae
"Latischisma globosa n. sp." = Shansiella globosa
"Latischisma globosa n. sp." = Shansiella globosa Thomas 1940 snail
 Murchisoniina - Gosseletinidae
Neilsonia roscobiensis n. sp. Thomas 1940 snail
Crinoidea
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae
 Sagenocrinida - Euryocrinidae
 Cladida - Phanocrinidae
 Cladida - Ulocrinidae
 Cladida -
 Dendrocrinida - Scytalocrinidae
Anemetocrinus sp. Wright 1938 Sea lily
 Dendrocrinida - Stellarocrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Pelecocrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Scotiacrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Zeacrinitidae
 Dendrocrinida - Blothrocrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Aphelecrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Adinocrinidae
 Poteriocrinina - Poteriocrinitidae
 Poteriocrinina - Hydreionocrinidae
 Disparida - Allagecrinidae
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