Pettycur, Bottle Factory, Bottle Factory Sediments: Asbian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Sphenopteridae
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Sphenopteris affinis
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Sphenopteris sp.
Sternberg 1825
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Polypodiopsida
- Polypodiaceae
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Adiantites machanekii
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unclassified
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Cardiopteridium sp.
Nathorst 1914
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Sphenopteridium sp.
Schimper 1874
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Lepidodendrales
- Lepidodendraceae
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Lepidodendron sp.
Sternberg 1820
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unclassified
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Lepidocarpon sp.
Scott 1900
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Fife |
| Coordinates: | 56.1° North, 3.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 3.9° South, 0.4° East | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | based on nearby landmark | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| Key time interval: | Asbian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 340.2 - 336.3 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
| Geological group: | Upper Oil Shale | Formation: | Pettycur Volcanics |
| Stratigraphic resolution: | group of beds |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | dolomitic "shale" | ||
| Secondary lithology: | grading tuff | ||
| Includes fossils? | Y | ||
| Lithology description: The Bottle Factory section is composed of two [lava] flows, the upper flow being columnar in part with the joints filled with tuff cemented in carbonate. The lavas are underlain and overlain by locally developed impersistent dolomitic mudstones. Of these, the mudstone above the second flow is the most persistent and appears to be developed within depressions in the old lava surface. In places this lithology yielded plant compression fossils, mainly of lycopods and pteridosperm leaves. Above this sequence a thick series of shales, silts and graded tuffs is exposed.This lava and interbedded sediment sequence thins southwards and disappears on the beach section at Pettycur Harbour. | |||
| Environment: | terrestrial indet. | Tectonic setting: | back-arc basin |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | adpression |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection excludes: | some macrofossils |
| Collection methods: | surface (in situ),chemical,mechanical,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | taxonomic analysis |
| Taxonomic list comments:These taxa are reported to be characteristic of the Bottle Factory sediments in the Pettycur region. | |
Metadata
| Database number: | 35779 | ||
| Authorizer: | H. Sims | Enterer: | J. Cassara |
| Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | paleobotany |
| Subset of collection #: | 10646 | ||
| Created: | 2004-01-07 17:27:23 | Last modified: | 2017-05-19 14:17:07 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2004-01-07 17:27:23 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 4490. | ETE 125 | G. M. Rex and A.C. Scott. 1987. The Sedimentology, Palaeoecology and Preservation of the Lower Carboniferous Plant Deposits at Pettycur, Fife, Scotland. Geol. Mag. 124:43-66 [W. DiMichele/W. DiMichele/M. Kosnik] |