ammonites
Cot Castle, Stonehouse (Carboniferous of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.7° N, 4.0° W: paleocoordinates 4.4° S, 0.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: P1 ammonoid zone, Basket Shell Bed Member (Kirkwood Formation), Asbian (339.4 - 336.0 Ma)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: mold/impression

Collected by Tait and Dunlop; reposited in the BGS

• Specimens held at BGS Edinburgh and National Museum of Scotland (Dunlop 4816)

Primary reference: E. D. Currie. 1954. Scottish Carboniferous Goniatites. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh LXII(II) [A. McGowan/A. McGowan] more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 93304: authorized by Alistair McGowan, entered by Alistair McGowan on 14.01.2010