Hill of Westerhouse, near Carluke (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 3.8° W: paleocoordinates 0.5° N, 4.9° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Calmy Limestone Member (Upper Limestone Formation), Arnsbergian (327.0 - 323.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: lithified, massive, fine-grained, shelly/skeletal, gray limestone and lithified mudstone

• A pale to dark grey, fine-grained, crinoidal, bioclastic, limestone, interpreted to be of marine origin, generally with two or more leaves separated by about 30cm partitions of mudstone, one leaf of "calmy" type being off-white, fine-grained and massive with a conchoidal fracture. The name is not geographical in origin, but instead indicates a "hard, pale grey or fawn, fine-grained, muddy limestone with a conchoidal fracture".

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

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 93319: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.01.2010

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Taxonomic list

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Cephalopoda
 Goniatitida - Anthracoceratidae
Anthracoceras mooreae, Anthracoceras paucilobum
Anthracoceras mooreae Currie 1954 ammonite
Anthracoceras paucilobum Phillips 1836 ammonite