Pettycur, Kingswood End, Basal Kingswood Sediments: Asbian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Coniferales
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Lepidodendrales
- Lepidodendraceae
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Lepidostrobophyllum sp.
Hirmer 1927
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| compressions | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Fife |
| Coordinates: | 56.1° North, 3.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 27.1° South, 8.7° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 | *Local age/stage: | Visean - Visean |
| Key time interval: | Asbian | Zone: | NM palynozone |
| Age range of interval: | 339.9 - 335.9 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Upper Oil Shale | Formation: | Pettycur Volcanic | ||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: DP spore zone. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | stromatolitic,yellow "limestone" | ||
| Secondary lithology: | dolomitic,yellow "shale" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: The section is composed of a series of massive yellow limestones which are often stromatolitic in the upper part interbedded with shales and graded ashes. Some of the shale layers contained plant compression fossils, some of which are well preserved... The section was capped along the entire outcrop by the basal lava flow of Kingswood End. Kingswood End itself is composed of a series of basaltic lavas and doleritic sills...Impersistent thin, yellow dolomitic mudstones outcrop between some of the lava flows and these contained some plant debris. | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | back-arc basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
| Disassociated major elements: | some |
| Disassociated minor elements: | some |
| Spatial resolution: | parautochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),chemical,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:These taxa are reported to be characteristic of the basal Kingswood sediments in the Pettycur region. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 112, Kingswood | ||
| Database number: | 21314 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | R. Bateman |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Subset of collection #: | 10646 | ||
| Created: | 1991-08-23 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1991-08-23 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4490. | ETE 125 | G. M. Rex and A.C. Scott. 1987. The Sedimentology, Palaeoecology and Preservation of the Lower Carboniferous Plant Deposits at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland. Geol. Mag. 124:43-66 [W. DiMichele/W. DiMichele/M. Kosnik] |
Secondary references:
| 3954 | ETE 234 | R. M. Bateman and G. W. Rothwell. 1990. A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 1. Floristics and the development of whole-plant concepts. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 81:127-159 [H. Sims/J. Allen/H. Sims] |
| 4428 | ETE 6 | S. L. Wing. 1990. personal research. [S. Wing/S. Wing/M. Uhen] |