Second Abden Shale, Level 64: Brigantian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Lamarck 1801
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Paraparchitidae
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Paraparchites okeni
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10 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
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Pelecypoda lamellibranch spat
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Heterostropha
- Donaldinidae
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Aclisina pulchra intermedia
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Rastidiscus sp.
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Discinidae
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Orbiculoidea nitida
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Lingulata
- Lingulida
- Lingulidae
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Lingula squamiformis
Phillips 1836
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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Eomarginifera longispinus
(Sowerby 1814)
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16 specimens | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Ambocoeliidae
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Crurithyris sp.
George 1931
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Crurithyris urei
(Fleming 1828)
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20 specimens | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Schizophoriidae
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Schizophoria sp.
King 1850
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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? Glabrocingulum sp.
Thomas 1940
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bellerophontidae
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Bucaniopsis decussatus
(Fleming 1828)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Bivalvia
- Ostreida
- Pterineidae
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Actinopteria fluctuosa
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Ammodiscidae
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Glomospira sp.
Rzehak 1895
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Geography
| Country: | United Kingdom | State/province: | Scotland | County: | Fifeshire |
| Coordinates: | 56.1° North, 3.2° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 1.8° South, 2.5° East | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Carboniferous | Epoch: | Mississippian |
| Stage: | Visean | 10 m.y. bin: | Carboniferous 2 |
| *Period: | Early/Lower Carboniferous | *Epoch: | Visean |
| *International age/stage: | Brigantian | ||
| Key time interval: | Brigantian | ||
| Age range of interval: | 336.3 - 330.9 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Formation: | Second Abden Shale | ||||
| Local section: | East Old Limekiln | Local bed: | 64 | ||
| Local order: | bottom to top | ||||
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: Brigantian age was shown by Brindley and Spinner 1989, Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc. 47:215-231 | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | lithified silty,sandy "shale" |
| Lithology description: thin sections of the shale show it to consist predominantly of clay minerals with varying admixtures of sand and silt sized particles, normally quartz but with some chlorite and feldspar...interlaminations of fine sandy material in their more argillaceous basic substance. | |
| Environment: | transition zone/lower shoreface |
| Geology comments: Sediments were deposited in a gap between periods of volcanic activity, the series represents a transgression from tidal-flat to subtidal environment. | |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,chemical,mechanical,peel or thin section,sieve,field collection |
| Reason for describing collection: | paleoecologic analysis |
Metadata
| Database number: | 6397 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 565 | ||
| Created: | 2000-03-01 11:52:27 | Last modified: | 2000-03-01 13:52:27 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2000-11-20 13:53:30 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 353. | L. Ferguson. 1962. The paleoecology of a Lower Carboniferous marine transgression. Journal of Paleontology 36:1090-1107 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Ju] |