Second Abden Shale, Level 68: Brigantian, United Kingdom
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Coleoloida
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Ortonia carbonaria
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Vertebrata indet.
Lamarck 1801
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| "fish" remains | ||||||||||
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Crinoidea
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Crinoidea indet.
Miller 1821
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Echinoidea
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Echinoidea indet.
(Leske 1778)
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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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Rhynchonellata
- Orthida
- Schizophoriidae
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Schizophoria resupinata
(Martin 1809)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Rhynchonellata
- Spiriferida
- Ambocoeliidae
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Crurithyris sp.
George 1931
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5 specimens | |||||||||
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Crurithyris urei
(Fleming 1828)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
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Strophomenata
- Productida
- Productellidae
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Eomarginifera longispinus
(Sowerby 1814)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Murchisoniina
- Gosseletinidae
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? Glabrocingulum sp.
Thomas 1940
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7 specimens | |||||||||
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Gastropoda
- Bellerophontida
- Bellerophontidae
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Bucaniopsis sp.
(Ulrich and Scofield 1897)
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2 specimens | |||||||||
| nuclei | ||||||||||
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Bucaniopsis decussatus
(Fleming 1828)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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unclassified
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Rastidiscus sp.
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Bivalvia
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Pelecypoda indet.
Goldfuss 1820
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10 specimens | |||||||||
| lamellibranch spat | ||||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Podocopida
- Bairdiidae
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Bairdia hisingeri
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10 specimens | |||||||||
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Ostracoda
- Palaeocopida
- Paraparchitidae
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Paraparchites okeni
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237 specimens | |||||||||
| macro specimens not totaled | ||||||||||
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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: | 68 | ||
| 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: | 6401 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | M. Sommers | Research group: | marine invertebrate |
| Subset of collection #: | 565 | ||
| Created: | 2000-03-01 12:59:37 | Last modified: | 2000-03-01 14:59:37 |
| 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] |