Deerhope Burn, Pentland Hills: Telychian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Anthozoa
- Rugosa
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Rugosa indet.
Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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unclassified
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Echinodermata indet.
Klein 1754
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| pelmatozoan | ||||||||||
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Stenolaemata
- Cystoporata
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Cystoporata indet.
Astrova 1964
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Stenolaemata
- Cryptostomata
- Ptilodictyidae
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Ptilodictya sp.
Lonsdale 1839
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Stenolaemata
- Trepostomata
- Aisenvergiidae
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? Eridotrypa sp.
Ulrich 1893
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Rhynchonellata
- Atrypida
- Anazygidae
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Pentlandella pentlandica
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dicoelosiidae
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Dicoelosia cf. verneuiliana
(Beecher 1891)
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Dalmanellidae
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Isorthis mackenziei
Boucot et al. 1966
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| recombined as Isorthis (Ovalella) mackenziei | ||||||||||
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Visbyella visbyensis
(Lindstrom 1861)
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Rhynchonellata
- Protorthida
- Skenidiidae
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Skenidioides lewisii
(Davidson 1848)
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Sowerbyellidae
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Eoplectodonta penkillensis
(Reed 1917)
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Strophomenata
- Strophomenida
- Furcitellidae
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Pentlandina tartana
(Bancroft 1949)
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| Strophomena (Pentlandina) tartana | ||||||||||
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Lingulidae
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Lingula sp.
Bruguiére 1797
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Leptodesma (Leptodesma) sp.
Hall 1883
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Cephalopoda
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Nautiloidea indet.
Agassiz 1847
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Gastropoda
- Euomphalina
- Oriostomatidae
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? Gyronema salteri
(Haswell 1865)
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| recombined as Hecetastoma salteri | ||||||||||
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Malacostraca
- Archaeostraca
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Dictyocaris sp.
Salter 1860
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Craspedobolbinidae
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Craspedobolbina (Mitrobeyrichia) impendens
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Phacopidae
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Acernaspis (Eskaspis) sufferta
(Lamont 1947)
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Trilobita
- Phacopida
- Encrinuridae
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Encrinurus expansus
(Haswell 1865)
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Trilobita
- Proetida
- Proetidae
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Cyphoproetus comitilis
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland |
| Coordinates: | 55.8° North, 3.4° West (view map) | ||
| Paleocoordinates: | 15.9° South, 20.8° West | ||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on political unit | ||
| Geographic resolution: | local area |
Time
| Period: | Silurian | Epoch: | Llandovery |
| Stage: | Telychian | 10 m.y. bin: | Silurian 1 |
| *International age/stage: | Late/Upper Telychian | ||
| Key time interval: | Telychian | Graptolite zone: | Cyrtograptus lapworthi |
| Age range of interval: | 438.50000 - 433.40000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Cock Rig | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | member | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Also known from Lower Member of Wether Law Linn Formation. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | sandstone |
| Secondary lithology: | siltstone |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Includes fossils? | Y |
| Lithology description: Fossils occur in medium grained sandstones with pebbles in the Cock Rig Formation and laminated siltstones and fine-grained sandstones with grit-sized clasts in the Lower member of the Wether Law Linn Form. | |
| Environment: | marine indet. |
| Geology comments: Taphonomy suggests transported assemblage--disarticulated, damaged, randomly oriented--but possibly transported en masse. Accumulation in relatively high energy in which sands were deposited. Overall sequence of sediments treated here "represents a marine regression from offshore turbidite facies, through shallow water facies with abundant flora and fauna, to terrestrial red beds, of Old Red Sandstone facies. Sediments belonging to the highest Cock Rig Formation and Lower Member of the Wether Law LInn Formation constitute part of the shallow water marine facies." | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Author gives percent abundance data, averaged over numerous sampled blocks. | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | Isorthis mackenziei-pelmatozoan Assoc., Pentland Hills | ||
| Database number: | 23297 | ||
| Authorizer: | M. Foote | Enterer: | M. Foote |
| Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Created: | 2002-07-11 14:08:48 | Last modified: | 2017-04-28 15:21:49 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2002-07-11 14:08:48 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 6691. | G. Robertson. 1999. Upper Llandovery fossil associations in the Pentland HIlls, Scotland. In A. J. Boucot and J. D. Lawson (eds.), Paleocommunities--a case study from the Silurian and Lower Devonian 408-418 [M. Foote/M. Foote/M. Foote] |