PBDB Collection

Pettycur, Pettycur Beach, Pettycur 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: Asbian (340.0 - 336.0 Ma)

• The Pettycur Limestone has not been found in situ, only as blocks on Pettycur Beach. Other lithologies found on Pettycur Beach are the zygopterid limestone (coll. 21313) and ashy limestone 2 (coll. 35778).

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; peat

• This is the most famous of the plant-bearing lithologies at Pettycur and most closely resembles a coal ball peat.... The peat is devoid of clastic sediment and fragments of fusain were rare.

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: permineralized, charcoalification

Collection methods: surface (float), 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 35920: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jason Cassara on 10.01.2004

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Taxonomic list

• These taxa are reported to be characteristic of the Pettycur Limestone in the Pettycur region.

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Stigmaria ficoides
-	Stigmaria ficoides Stigmaria ficoides Sternberg 1822 permineralizations
Equisetopsida
Sphenophyllales -	Sphenophyllum insigne Sphenophyllum insigne permineralizations
Flemingites
-	Flemingites scottii Flemingites scottii permineralizations
Bensonites fusiformis
-	Bensonites fusiformis Bensonites fusiformis Scott 1908 permineralizations
Sphenopsida
-	Archaeocalamites goeppertii Archaeocalamites goeppertii permineralizations
Sigillariaceae
- Sigillariaceae	Mazocarpon pettycurensis Mazocarpon pettycurensis permineralizations

Lepidodendrales - Lepidodendraceae	Lepidodendron pettycurensis, Lepidophloios scottii Lepidodendron pettycurensis permineralizations Lepidophloios scottii permineralizations
Physostoma
-	Physostoma sp. Physostoma sp. Williamson 1876 permineralizations
Rhetinangium arberi
-	Rhetinangium arberi Rhetinangium arberi Gordon 1912 permineralizations
Heterangium
-	Heterangium grievii Heterangium grievii permineralizations
Sphaerostoma ovale
-	Sphaerostoma ovale Sphaerostoma ovale Williamson 1909 permineralizations
Cheirostrobus pettycurensis
-	Cheirostrobus pettycurensis Cheirostrobus pettycurensis Scott 1897 permineralizations

Coniferales -	Lepidostrobus cylindricus Lepidostrobus cylindricus permineralizations
Lycopodiopsida
Isoetales -	Paralycopodites brevifolium Paralycopodites brevifolium clubmoss permineralizations
Polypodiopsida
Equisetales - Equisetidae	Protocalamostachys pettycurensis Protocalamostachys pettycurensis permineralizations

Coenopteridales -	Stauropteris burntislandica, Botryopteris antiqua Stauropteris burntislandica permineralizations Botryopteris antiqua permineralizations