Oxroad Bay Exposure E: Tournaisian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
unclassified
cf. Melissiotheca sp. seed repro, microspore
Bateman and Rothwell 1990
Setispora subpalaeocristata megaspore
Bateman and Rothwell 1990
Triradioxylon primaevum leaf
Cordaitales
Amyelon spp. root Williamson 1874
Bateman and Rothwell 1990
unclassified
Tantallosperma setigera seed/fruit Barnard and Long 1973
Bateman and Rothwell 1990
Lyginorachis waltonii leaf
Bateman and Rothwell 1990
Gymnospermopsida
Gymnospermopsida informal Frond A leaf
Bateman and Rothwell 1990
unclassified
Oxroadia gracilis axis Alvin 1965
Bateman and Rothwell 1990
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Scotland County:East Lothian
Coordinates: 56.0° North, 3.0° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:10.3° South, 1.7° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Carboniferous Epoch: Mississippian
Stage: Tournaisian 10 m.y. bin: Carboniferous 1
*Period:Early/Lower Carboniferous *Epoch:Tournasian
*Local age/stage:DInantian
Key time interval: Tournaisian Zone:  CM palynozone
Age range of interval: 358.9 - 346.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series) Formation:Garlton Hills Volcanics Member:Sunnyside/Rhodes Limestone
Local section:Scottish Midland Valley Local bed:unit 4
Local order:bottom to top
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: Plane laminated green tuffs.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:gray sandstone
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: Thick green tuff. Matrix is translucent with a pinkish-brown color, dominantly neomorphic dolomite.
Environment:lacustrine - large Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression,permineralized,coalified,replaced with other
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (in situ),mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Exposure is inaccessible and could not be logged or sampled in situ, recently fallen blocks were rocovered ummediatly beneath exposure and sampled ex situ.

Occurence data from Reference #3954
Metadata
Database number:10675
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:J. Allen, J. Cassara
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:paleobotany
Created:2001-06-11 06:48:32 Last modified:2018-11-20 09:46:15
Access level:the public Released:2001-06-11 06:48:32
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
3955.ETE 235R. M. Bateman and A.C. Scott. 1990. A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 2. Volcanicity, palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 81:161-194 [H. Sims/J. Allen/J. Cassara]

Secondary references:

3954ETE 234R. 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]
3947ETE 391A. C. Scott, J. Galtier, and G. Clayton. 1984. Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 75:311-340 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]