Patrick Burn Formation
| Patrick Burn Formation | |
|---|---|
| Stratigraphic range: Upper | |
| Type | Formation |
| Location | |
| Region | Scotland |
| Country |  United Kingdom |
The Patrick Burn Formation is a geologic formation outcropping near Lesmahagow in Lanarkshire in the Scottish Lowlands. This formation is main part of fossil site called as Birk Knowes. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period.[1][2]
Description
This formation contains fossils from non-marine or marginal marine environment.[3] In 2000, the site was closed by the Scottish government agency Scottish Natural Heritage (now NatureScot), due to the theft of specimens from the site by amateur collectors during the preceding decades, who essentially exhausted the fossiliferous deposit. At least some of the fossils ended up in a museum in Berlin, who refused to return them.[4][5][6][7]
Paleobiota
Arthropods
| Arthropods | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Notes | Images | |
| Slimonia acuminata | A slimonid eurypterid. |  | |
| Erettopterus bilobus | A pterygotid eurypterid. |  | |
| ?Nanahughmilleria lanceolata | An adelophthalmid eurypterid. | ||
| ?Hardieopterus lanarkensis | A hardieopterid eurypterid. | ||
| Loganamaraspis dunlopi | A chasmataspidid. | ||
| Cyamocephalus loganensis | A synziphosurine. |  | |
| Pseudoniscus falcatus | A synziphosurine. | ||
| Ainiktozoon loganense | A thylacocephalan. |  | |
| Ceratiocaris papilio | A phyllocarid. |  | |
Chordates
| Chordates | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Notes | Images | |
| Loganellia scotica | A loganelliid thelodont. |  | |
| Jamoytius kerwoodi | An enigmatic chordate. |  | |
See also
References
- Various Contributors to the Paleobiology Database. "Fossilworks: Gateway to the Paleobiology Database". Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ D., Dineley; S., Metcalf (1999). Fossil Fishes of Great Britain. Geological Conservation Review Series. Vol. No. 16. Peterborough. ISBN 1-86107-470-0.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Žigaitė, Živile; Goujet, Daniel (2012). "New observations on the squamation patterns of articulated specimens ofLoganellia scotica(Traquair, 1898) (Vertebrata: Thelodonti) from the Lower Silurian of Scotland". Geodiversitas. 34 (2): 253–270. doi:10.5252/g2012n2a1. ISSN 1280-9659. S2CID 73663549.
- ^ Tetlie, O. Erik; Braddy, Simon J. (2003). "The first Silurian chasmataspid, Loganamaraspis dunlopi gen. et sp. nov. (Chelicerata: Chasmataspidida) from Lesmahagow, Scotland, and its implications for eurypterid phylogeny". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 94 (3): 227–234. doi:10.1017/S0263593300000638. ISSN 1473-7116. S2CID 73596575.
- ^ "BBC - Radio 4 - Today - Fossils". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- ^ Hose, Thomas A. (1 April 2012). "3G's for Modern Geotourism". Geoheritage. 4 (1): 7–24. doi:10.1007/s12371-011-0052-y. ISSN 1867-2485. S2CID 144250723.
- ^ Langlands, Eva (1 September 2023). "Looters destroy Scotland's fossil heritage sites". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ University of Glasgow 23 May 2002 MOVE TO HALT FOSSIL THEFT AND DAMAGE IN SCOTLAND
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