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
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Strophomenata | |
Rhynchonellata | |
"Dielasma cf. hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides
"Dielasma cf. hastatum" = Dielasma virgoides M'Coy 1844 | |
Stenolaemata | |
Fenestella sp. Lonsdale 1839 | |
Bivalvia | |
Streblochondria sp. Newell 1938 scallop | |
Pernopecten sowerbii scallop | |
Actinopteria persulcata oyster |