Gutterford Burn Eurypterid bed, Pentland Hills: Telychian, United Kingdom
collected by Hardie
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Cephalopoda
- Dissidocerida
- Geisonoceratidae
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Geisonoceras maclareni
(Murchison 1859)
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Holland 2000 | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Bembicosoma pomphicus n. gen., n. sp.
Laurie 1899
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Eurypterida
- Moselopteridae
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Drepanopterus lobatus n. sp.
Laurie 1899
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Drepanopterus bembycoides n. sp.
Laurie 1899
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Eurypterida
- Slimonidae
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Slimonia dubia n. sp.
Laurie 1899
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Eurypterida
- Carcinosomatidae
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Eurypterus scoticus n. sp.
Laurie 1899
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Eurypterida
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Eurypterus minor n. sp.
Laurie 1899
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Eurypterida
- Hardieopteridae
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Stylonurus macrophthalmus n. sp.
Laurie 1892
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Eurypterida
- Parastylonuridae
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Stylonurus ornatus n. sp.
Laurie 1892
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Eurypterida
- Stylonuridae
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Stylonurus elegans n. sp.
Laurie 1899
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Eurypterida
- Drepanopteridae
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Drepanopterus pentlandicus n. gen., n. sp.
Laurie 1892
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Arachnida
- Scorpiones
- Dolichophoniidae
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Palaeophonus loudonensis n. sp.
Laurie 1899
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1 specimen | |||||||||
| RSM 1897.32.196 | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Midlothian |
| Coordinates: | 55.8° North, 3.3° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 15.8° South, 20.8° West | ||||
| 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: | 2018-07-08 11:24:35 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2013-12-28 22:41:54 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
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] |