THE GRANTON SHRIMP-BED, EDINBURGH - A LOWER CARBONIFEROUS KONSERVAT-LAGERSTATTE

被引：24

作者：

BRIGGS, DEG

CLARK, NDL

CLARKSON, ENK

机构：

[1] Department of Geology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1RJ, Wills Memorial Building, Queen's Road

[2] Department of Geology and Applied Geology, University of Glasgow

[3] Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, West Mains Road

来源：

TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH-EARTH SCIENCES | 1991年 / 82卷

关键词：

CARBONIFEROUS; CRUSTACEA; MALACOSTRACA; ENVIRONMENT; TAPHONOMY; SALINITY; BRACKISH WATER;

D O I：

10.1017/S0263593300007525

中图分类号：

P [天文学、地球科学];

学科分类号：

07 ;

摘要：

Newly discovered crustaceans from the Granton 'shrimp-bed' (Dinantian, Lower Oil Shale Group) are described: Bairdops elegans, Minicaris sp., Palaemysis, Tealliocaris cf. woodwardi, Pseudogalathea ornatissima, Anthracocaris scotica, Paraparchites cf. okeni, Beyrichiopsis plicata, and Eocypridina cf. aciculata, and new observations on Waterstonella grantonensis are reported. Tealliocaris woodwardi alone is recorded from bed o, a level ca 1 m below the 'shrimp-bed'. The Granton 'shrimp-bed' biota is reviewed-the geological and lithological context of the deposit, the distribution and taphonomy of the biota, its life environment, palaeoecology, the likely causes of mortality, and comparisons are made with contemporaneous shrimp biotas. The nature of this unusual Konservat-Lagerstatte reflects conditions in the sheltered, periodically emergent lagoon which it represents.

引用

页码：65 / 85

页数：21

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