Pettycur, Bottle Factory, Bottle Factory Sediments (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 Volcanics Formation (Upper Oil Shale Group), Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; dolomitic shale and graded tuff

• 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.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression

Collection methods: surface (in situ), chemical, mechanical,

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 35779: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jason Cassara on 07.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

• These taxa are reported to be characteristic of the Bottle Factory sediments in the Pettycur region.
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Sphenopteridae
  - Sphenopteridae
Sphenopteris affinis, Sphenopteris sp.
Sphenopteris affinis
compressions
Sphenopteris sp. Sternberg 1825
compressions
Lepidocarpon
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Lepidocarpon sp.
Lepidocarpon sp. Scott 1900
compressions
 Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae
Lepidodendron sp.
Lepidodendron sp. Sternberg 1820
compressions
Polypodiopsida
  - Polypodiaceae
Adiantites machanekii
Adiantites machanekii
compressions
Cardiopteridium
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Cardiopteridium sp.
Cardiopteridium sp. Nathorst 1914
compressions
Sphenopteridium
  -
Sphenopteridium sp.
Sphenopteridium sp. Schimper 1874
compressions