Pettycur, Kingswood End, Kingswood Limestone (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 3.9° S, 0.4° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Pettycur Volcanic Formation (Upper Oil Shale Group), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• DP spore zone

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; brown limestone and tuff

• At this locality (NS255866) a series of agglomerates and tuffs outcrop dipping at 38 degrees SE. Within the agglomerates occur a number of large limestone blocks (Kingswood Limestone), which contain plants preserved as fusain and permineralizations.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: permineralized, charcoalification

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

Primary reference: 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 [B. DiMichele/B. DiMichele/M. Kosnik]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 35776: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jason Cassara on 07.01.2004

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• These taxa are reported to be characteristic of the Kingswood Limestone in the Pettycur region.
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unclassified
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Phacelotheca pilosa, Melissotheca longii
Phacelotheca pilosa
fusain, permineralizations
Melissotheca longii
fusain, permineralizations
Sphenopsida
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Archaeocalamites goeppertii
Ginkgoopsida
 Calamopityales - Calamopityaceae
Kalymma sp.
Kalymma sp. Unger 1856
fusain
Lyginorachis
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Lyginorachis sp.
Lyginorachis sp. Kidston 1923
fusain
Lepidocarpaceae
  - Lepidocarpaceae
Achlamydocarpon sp.
Achlamydocarpon sp. Schumacker-Lambry 1966
permineralizations
 Cordaitales -
Amyelon sp.
Amyelon sp. Williamson 1874
permineralizations
Equisetopsida
 Pinidae - Pinidae
Dadoxylon sp.
Dadoxylon sp. Endlicher 1847
fusain, permineralizations
Oxroadia
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Oxroadia sp.
Oxroadia sp. Alvin 1965
permineralizations