Meikle Corseford [NS 4114 6086] (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Also known as Locality 19

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 4.5° W: paleocoordinates 4.5° S, 0.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Hurlet Limestone Member (Lower Limestone Formation), Visean (346.7 - 330.9 Ma)

Environment/lithology: limestone and mudstone

Size class: macrofossils

Reposited in the BGS

Primary reference: I. H. Forsyth. 1978. The Lower Carboniferous sequence in the Howwood Syncline,Renfrewshire. Bulletin of the Geological Society of Great Britain 60:1-8 [A. McGowan/A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 92517: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 17.11.2009

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Taxonomic list

Strophomenata
 Productida - Productellidae
 Strophomenida - Anopliidae
Rhynchonellata
 Athyridida - Athyrididae
 Terebratulida - Dielasmatidae
"Dielasma cf. hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides
"Dielasma cf. hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides M'Coy 1844
Stenolaemata
 Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Streblochondriidae
Streblochondria sp. Newell 1938 scallop
 Pectinida - Entoliidae
 Ostreida - Pterineidae