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Introduction to the palaeontology of the Dinantian of Foulden, Berwickshire, Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2011

S. P. Wood  and
W. D. Ian Rolfe
S. P. Wood
Affiliation:
Mr Wood's Fossils, Unit 8, Abbotsford Rise, Livingston EH54 6QD, Scotland.
W. D. Ian Rolfe
Affiliation:
Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Scotland.
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Abstract

The Foulden Site of Special Scientific Interest is one of the few Cementstone Group localities that yields significant fauna and flora. Excavations in 1980 and 1981 removed a 1·3 m2 slab of the Fish Bed for laboratory study of the vertical and spatial distribution of the biota. Layer by layer analysis revealed an almost mutually exclusive relationship between the vertical distribution of the palaeoniscoid fishes and malacostracan crustaceans, as well as a horizon crowded with juvenile acanthodians. Elongate elements of this biota showed slight preferred orientations at that prolific horizon. Some 27 m of strata including the Fish Bed, Plant Bed and Shell Bed are recorded in detail, and their biota noted. Interim results of work on the main groups collected are summarised in associated papers in this part of Transactions. Brief reports are given here on the euryhaline marine bivalve mollusc Modiolus latus (Portlock), a rare durophagous bradyodont shark tooth and an Eogyrinus-like amphibian scute.

Keywords

amphibianbivalve molluscbradyodont sharkCarboniferousCementstone GroupCourceyanFish Bed sequenceSite of Special Scientific InterestTournaisian
Type
Research Article
Information
Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , 1985 , pp. 1 - 6
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1985

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