Gutterford Burn Eurypterid bed, Pentland Hills: Telychian, United Kingdom
collected by Hardie

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cephalopoda - Dissidocerida - Geisonoceratidae
Holland 2000
Eurypterida
Eurypterida - Slimonidae
Eurypterida - Carcinosomatidae
Eurypterida - Moselopteridae
Eurypterida - Parastylonuridae
Stylonurus ornatus n. sp. Laurie 1892
Eurypterida - Stylonuridae
Eurypterida - Drepanopteridae
Drepanopterus pentlandicus n. gen., n. sp. Laurie 1892
Eurypterida - Hardieopteridae
Stylonurus macrophthalmus n. sp. Laurie 1892
Arachnida - Scorpiones - Dolichophoniidae
1 specimen
RSM 1897.32.196
unclassified
see common names

Geography
Country:United Kingdom State/province:Scotland County:Midlothian
Coordinates: 55.8° North, 3.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:12.5° South, 70.2° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Silurian Epoch: Llandovery
Stage: Telychian 10 m.y. bin: Silurian 1
Key time interval: Telychian Graptolite zone:  Spirograptus turriculatus
Age range of interval: 438.5 - 433.4 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:North Esk Formation:Reservoir Member:Gutterford Burn Flagstones
Stratigraphic resolution:group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: PJW: Eurypterid Bed is part of Gutterford Burn Flagstones.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology:brown,yellow lithified argillaceous sandstone
Environment:offshore indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collectors:Hardie
Collection method comments: Repository: Royal Scottish Museum (classic 1880s arthropod collection yielding many eurypterids)
Metadata
Database number:153581
Authorizer:M. Clapham, P. Wagner Enterer:M. Clapham, P. Wagner
Modifier:P. Wagner Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2013-12-28 22:41:54 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:the public Released:2013-12-28 22:41:54
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

49639. M. Laurie. 1899. On a Silurian scorpion and some additional eurypterid remains from the Pentland Hills. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 39:575-590 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

52217 C. H. Holland. 2000. Silurian cephalopods from the Pentland Hills. Scottish Journal of Geology 36(2):177-186 [P. Wagner/P. Wagner]
49610 E. N. Kjellesvig-Waering. 1986. A restudy of the fossil Scorpionida of the world. Palaeontographica Americana 55:1-287 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]