PBDB Collection

Oxroad Bay Exposure B: Tournaisian, United Kingdom

List of taxa

Where & when

Geology

Taphonomy & methods

Metadata & references

Taxonomic list

unclassified

	Plantae informal Organ 1	Bateman and Rothwell 1990
	organs of uncertain biological function and taxonomic affinity

	Plantae informal Organ 2	Bateman and Rothwell 1990
	organs of uncertain biological function and taxonomic affinity

	Plantae informal Organ 3	Bateman and Rothwell 1990
	organs of uncertain biological function and taxonomic affinity
Cladoxylopsida - Pseudosporochnales

	Cladoxylon cf. waltonii axis
Gymnospermopsida

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Stem 2 axis	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Petiole 1 leaf	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Petiole 2 leaf	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Sphenopterid foliage 1 leaf	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Sphenopterid foliage 2 leaf	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Sphenopterid foliage 3 leaf	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Ovulate cupule 2 seed repro, seed/fruit	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Ovule 2 seed/fruit	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Gymnospermopsida informal Ovule 3 seed/fruit	Bateman and Rothwell 1990
Pteropsida

	? Pteropsida informal Stem 1 axis	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	? Pteropsida informal Foliage 1 leaf	Bateman and Rothwell 1990
unclassified

	cf. Telangiopsis bifida	Bateman and Rothwell 1990

	Setispora pannosa megaspore	Bateman and Rothwell 1990
see common names

Period:	Carboniferous	Epoch:	Mississippian
Stage:	Tournaisian	10 m.y. bin:	Carboniferous 1
*Period:	Early/Lower Carboniferous	*Epoch:	Tournaisian
*Local age/stage:	Dinantian
Key time interval:	Tournaisian	Zone:	CM palynozone
Age range of interval:	358.86 - 346.7 m.y. ago
* legacy (obsolete) database fields

Geological group:	Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series)	Formation:	Garlton Hills VolcanicsGarlton Hills Volcanics	Member:	Sunnyside/Rhodes Limestone
Stratigraphic resolution:	group of beds
Stratigraphy comments: 17 plane laminate horizons, alternating from siltstone to sandstone with varying induration. Structures include ripples, flutes, dessication cracks, and gradation. Scottish Midland Valley

Primary lithology:	desiccation cracks,current ripples,flute casts sandstone
Secondary lithology:	desiccation cracks siltstone
Includes fossils?	Y
Includes fossils?	Y
Lithology description: Siltstone and sandstone with ripples, flutes, grading, dessication cracks
Environment:	lacustrine - large	Tectonic setting:	back-arc basin
Geology comments: the predominance of thin, plane-bedded, upward fining laminae and lack of channels, these indicate depostion in a lake that was sufficiently extensive to allow wave development, but sufficiently shallow to allow considerable periodic decreases in volume by evapouration.

Modes of preservation:	adpression,recrystallized,permineralized
Size of fossils:	macrofossils
Spatial resolution:	allochthonous

Collection methods:	surface (in situ),mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:	taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: Occurence data from reference #3954

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]