Oxroad Bay Exposure H: Mississippian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Setispora subpalaeocristata megaspore
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Bateman and Rothwell 1990 | ||||||
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cf. Sphaerostoma sp. seed/fruit
Benson 1909
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Bateman and Rothwell 1990 | ||||||
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Tantallosperma setigera seed/fruit
Barnard and Long 1973
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Bateman and Rothwell 1990 | ||||||
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Ginkgoopsida
- Calamopityales
- Calamopityaceae
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Eosperma oxroadense seed/fruit
Barnard 1959
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Bateman and Rothwell 1990 | ||||||
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Cordaitales
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Amyelon spp. root
Williamson 1874
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Bateman and Rothwell 1990 | ||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | East Lothian |
| Coordinates: | 56.0° North, 3.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 5.0° South, 0.3° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 1-3 | ||
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Dinantian |
| Key time interval: | Mississippian | Zone: | CM palynozone |
| Age range of interval: | 358.9 - 323.2 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: Highly indurated impure limstone sandwiched between greenish-grey plane- and cross-laminated tuffs. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | "limestone" | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Impure limestone, well-indurated. Matrix neomorphic calcite (much like exposure G) with a small amount of ferroan calcite. | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine - large | Tectonic setting: | back-arc basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | permineralized,replaced with calcite |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
| Spatial resolution: | allochthonous |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Collection method comments: Occurence data from Reference #3954 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 10678 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | J. Allen |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2001-06-11 07:00:38 | Last modified: | 2018-11-20 09:47:19 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-06-11 07:00:38 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 3955. | ETE 235 | R. 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:
| 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] |
| 3947 | ETE 391 | A. 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] |