Oxroad Bay, Loose Block OBC084: Tournaisian, United Kingdom

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Cordaitales
Amyelon spp. root Williamson 1874
unclassified
Tantallosperma setigera seed/fruit Barnard and Long 1973
cf. Telangium sp. seed repro, microspore Benson 1904
cf. Melissiotheca sp. seed repro, microspore
Dolichosperma cf. sexangulatum seed/fruit Long 1961
Hydrasperma tenuis seed/fruit Long 1961
Stamnostoma sp. seed/fruit Long 1960
Buteoxylonales
Buteoxylon gordonianum axis, leaf Barnard and Long 1973
unclassified
Bilignea cf. solida axis, leaf Kidston 1923
cf. Eurystoma burnense seed/fruit
Lyginorachis sp. leaf Kidston 1923
Ginkgoopsida - Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae
Eosperma oxroadense seed/fruit Barnard 1959
unclassified
cf. Eccroustosperma langtonense seed/fruit
Ginkgoopsida - Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae
Deltasperma fouldenense seed/fruit Long 1961
Gymnospermopsida
Gymnospermopsida informal Frond A leaf
Gymnospermopsida informal Ovulate cupule C seed repro, seed/fruit
Polypodiopsida - Equisetales
Protocalamostachys sp. multi organs, non-seed repro Walton 1949
sporangia with mega- and microspores
unclassified
Oxroadia sp. axis Alvin 1965
Setispora pannosa megaspore
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
Key time interval: Tournaisian
Age range of interval: 358.9 - 346.7 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Lower Lothian Calciferous Sandstone Measures (Series) Formation:Garlton Hills Volcanics Member:Sunnyside/Rhodes Limestone
Stratigraphy comments: Scottish Midland Valley
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: not reported
Environment:lacustrine - large Tectonic setting:back-arc basin
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:adpression,permineralized,charcoalification
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Spatial resolution:allochthonous
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float),mechanical,peel or thin section,field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: From a single loose block at Oxroad Bay
Metadata
Database number:36224
Authorizer:H. Sims Enterer:J. Cassara
Modifier:M. Uhen Research group:paleobotany
Created:2004-01-19 13:45:51 Last modified:2018-11-20 09:52:06
Access level:the public Released:2004-01-19 13:45:51
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

3954.ETE 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]