Exceptionally preserved fossils from Bickershaw, Lancashire UK (Upper Carboniferous, Westphalian A (Langsettian))
✍ Scribed by Lyall I. Anderson; Jason A. Dunlop; Carl A. Horrocks; Heather M. Winkelmann; R. M. C. Eagar
- Book ID
- 102658450
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 719 KB
- Volume
- 32
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0072-1050
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✦ Synopsis
Fossils from a new Upper Carboniferous LagerstaÈ tte of Late Westphalian A (Langsettian) age at Bickershaw, Lancashire, UK, are reported and an account of the locality is presented. In common with many Upper Carboniferous LagerstaÈ tten, the fossils are preserved within siderite nodules hosted by coal seam roof shales. The fossils include a diverse assemblage of plants, nonmarine bivalves, crustaceans, insects, arthropleurid fragments, a euthycarcinoid, xiphosurans, a whip scorpion, scorpion cuticle fragments, ®sh scales and coprolites. The arthropods, with a greater diversity and abundance of aquatic taxa, and the non-marine bivalves suggest a brackish, ¯uvio-deltaic setting probably above the Haigh Yard Coal. However, tabulation of the relative abundances of fossils is of limited palaeoecological value, since the data represent a combination of the original community structure, each groups' preservation potential and mixing of material from dierent stratigraphic horizons on the tip.