Bankend, Lesmahagow (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)
Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.6° N, 3.9° W: paleocoordinates 0.3° N, 4.8° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: P1a ammonoid zone, Index Limestone Member (Upper Limestone Formation), Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)
Environment/lithology: shelly/skeletal limestone
• A pale to dark grey bioclastic (crinoidal) marine limestone, with algal nodules. The name is not geographical in origin, but indicates a marker bed for the Limestone Coal Formation coal seams below.
Size class: macrofossils
Primary reference: E. D. Currie. 1954. Scottish Carboniferous Goniatites. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh LXII(II) [A. McGowan/A. McGowan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 92588: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 18.11.2009, edited by Pete Wagner
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Taxonomic list
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| Cephalopoda | |
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Cluthoceras neilsoni Currie 1954 ammonite
Cluthoceras truemani Currie 1954 ammonite | |
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Eumorphoceras sp. Girty 1909 ammonite | |
| Gastropoda | |
"Worthenia dunlopi n. sp." = Wellergyi dunlopi
"Worthenia dunlopi n. sp." = Wellergyi dunlopi Thomas 1940 snail | |