Oxroad Bay Exposure C: Tournaisian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | East Lothian |
| Coordinates: | 56.0° North, 3.0° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 32.5° South, 13.2° West (Wright 2013) | ||||
| 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: | Garlton Hills Volcanics |
| Local section: | Garlton Hills Volcanics | Local bed: | unit 2 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: 18 horizons logged. Overlying horizons are very indurated protecting the lower horizons from erosion. Evidence of syn-/post-depositional disruption, all horizons are dissected by numerous veins of fine-grained sediments. | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | grading,tuffaceous sandstone | ||
| Secondary lithology: | wave ripples,flute casts conglomerate | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: Fine/medium sandstones intercalated with coarser tuffs concentrated near the base and top of the section. Display ripple-marked bedding planes. The fossils are from two sandstone beds at the base of the section (2-3) | |||
| Environment: | lacustrine - large | Tectonic setting: | back-arc basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression,permineralized,replaced with calcite |
| 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: Occurence data are from reference #3954 | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 10673 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | J. Allen, J. Cassara |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Created: | 2001-06-11 06:44:13 | Last modified: | 2025-02-22 15:12:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2001-06-11 06:44:13 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC0 |
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] |