Kirkcaldy (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as 9KK

Where: United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 2.5° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Lower Limestone Formation (Clackmannan Group), Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• possibly in the underlying Pathead Formation

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 90827: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 18.08.2009

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Taxonomic list

• includes ? Apographiocrinus scoticus, a nomen dubium
unclassified
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Crinoidea
 Cladida - Ulocrinidae
 Dendrocrinida - Zeacrinitidae
 Sagenocrinida - Mespilocrinidae
 Taxocrinida - Synerocrinidae
 Monobathrida - Platycrinitidae
 Diplobathrida - Rhodocrinitidae