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![(a) Map of Scotland showing the location of detailed map (b), illustrating locations of known Carboniferous Diplichnites cuithensis in Scotland, within the Carboniferous Midland Valley of Scotland (MVS). A, New occurrence from Linn Park Glasgow; B, Isle of Arran; C–E, Lower Carboniferous (Visean) from East Fife, Kinkell Braes, Boarhills to Kingsbarns, and Crail respectively. (c) Location details within Linn Park, Glasgow.]()
![Stratigraphic location of Scottish Diplichnites cuithensis withinin the Carboniferous sequence of the Midland Valley of Scotland. White square, D. cuithensis, Isle of Arran, Serpukhovian, Limestone Coal Formation, and Linn Park, Glasgow (herein). White circle, Visean, Kinkell Braes, Pittenweem Formation, Strathclyde Group, with three recorded trackways; Crail (Pittenweem Formation), with five plus recorded tracks. Black circle, Boarshills to Kingsbarns, Anstruther Formation, Strathclyde Group, with 13 trackways. At the right-hand side is shown the correlation of European Carboniferous subdivisions with those of the International Commission on Stratigraphy.]()
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![Trace fossil evidence for Arthropleura from the trackway Diplichnites cuithensis, preserved in strata, near contemporaneous in age to the Howick specimen, from adjacent basins in northern Britain (see Fig. 3 for localities). (a) Trackway from which the D. cuithensis holotype was cast (Briggs et al. 1979) in the Serpukhovian Limestone Coal Formation of Laggan, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Stick is 1 m long, inner and outer width of trackway highlighted. (b) D. cuithensis trackway of near-analogous width to the Howick body fossil, Visean Pittenweem Formation, Crail, Fife, Scotland. (c) D. cuithensis trackway >10 m long (arrowed) in the Visean Pittenweem Formation, St Andrews, Fife, Scotland (see Whyte 2018). Geologist is 1.8 m tall. (d, e) Photograph and interpreted sketch of context of D. cuithensis on a true substrate (Davies and Shillito 2018, 2021) recording the passage of two animals between emergent and subaqueous substrates. Convex bedform, colonized with plants, provided small island surrounded by shallow water puddles in a delta-top setting. Trackways are well-defined on emergent substrate and less so on subaqueous parts of substrate. Visean Anstruther Formation, 3.5 km NW of Kingsbarns, Fife, Scotland. Measuring stick 60 cm long.]()
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( a ) Map of Scotland showing the location of detailed map ( b ), illustrat... Open Access
in Arthropleura trackway ( Diplichnites cuithensis ) from the Carboniferous, Serpukhovian, Limestone Coal Formation, Clackmannan Group, Linn Park, Glasgow
> Scottish Journal of Geology
Published: 15 December 2023
Fig. 1. ( a ) Map of Scotland showing the location of detailed map ( b ), illustrating locations of known Carboniferous Diplichnites cuithensis in Scotland, within the Carboniferous Midland Valley of Scotland (MVS). A, New occurrence from Linn Park Glasgow; B, Isle of Arran; C–E, Lower
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Stratigraphic location of Scottish Diplichnites cuithensis withinin the C... Open Access
in Arthropleura trackway ( Diplichnites cuithensis ) from the Carboniferous, Serpukhovian, Limestone Coal Formation, Clackmannan Group, Linn Park, Glasgow
> Scottish Journal of Geology
Published: 15 December 2023
Fig. 3. Stratigraphic location of Scottish Diplichnites cuithensis withinin the Carboniferous sequence of the Midland Valley of Scotland. White square, D. cuithensis , Isle of Arran, Serpukhovian, Limestone Coal Formation, and Linn Park, Glasgow (herein). White circle, Visean, Kinkell Braes
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Arthropleura trackway ( Diplichnites cuithensis ) from the Carboniferous, Serpukhovian, Limestone Coal Formation, Clackmannan Group, Linn Park, Glasgow Open Access
Journal: Scottish Journal of Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 15 December 2023
Scottish Journal of Geology (2024) 60 (1): sjg2021-019.
...Fig. 1. ( a ) Map of Scotland showing the location of detailed map ( b ), illustrating locations of known Carboniferous Diplichnites cuithensis in Scotland, within the Carboniferous Midland Valley of Scotland (MVS). A, New occurrence from Linn Park Glasgow; B, Isle of Arran; C–E, Lower...
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Volcaniclastic deposit (tonstein) in the Balcomie Beds, Lower Carboniferous, East Fife Available to Purchase
Journal: Scottish Journal of Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 29 March 2021
Scottish Journal of Geology (2021) 57 (1): sjg2020-019.
...Richard A. Batchelor Abstract A volcanogenic clay bed (tonstein) has been identified in the Balcomie Beds of the Inverclyde Group near Crail, East Fife. Its chemical composition suggests an undersaturated alkaline magma source. This horizon may be contemporaneous with the early Carboniferous...
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Trace fossil evidence for Arthropleura from the trackway Diplichnites cu... Available to Purchase
in The largest arthropod in Earth history: insights from newly discovered Arthropleura remains (Serpukhovian Stainmore Formation, Northumberland, England)
> Journal of the Geological Society
Published: 21 December 2021
was cast ( Briggs et al. 1979 ) in the Serpukhovian Limestone Coal Formation of Laggan, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Stick is 1 m long, inner and outer width of trackway highlighted. ( b ) D. cuithensis trackway of near-analogous width to the Howick body fossil, Visean Pittenweem Formation, Crail, Fife
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Mating trackways of a fossil giant millipede Available to Purchase
Journal: Scottish Journal of Geology
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 18 April 2018
Scottish Journal of Geology (2018) 54 (1): 63–68.
...Martin A. Whyte Abstract Three closely associated arthropleurid trackways, Diplichnites cuithensis , from the Lower Carboniferous of Fife, Scotland, exhibit signs of interaction between track-makers. An extra file of footprints is found on the downslope side of two trackways (A and C), the upslope...
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The largest arthropod in Earth history: insights from newly discovered Arthropleura remains (Serpukhovian Stainmore Formation, Northumberland, England) Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of the Geological Society
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Published: 21 December 2021
Journal of the Geological Society (2022) 179 (3): jgs2021-115.
... was cast ( Briggs et al. 1979 ) in the Serpukhovian Limestone Coal Formation of Laggan, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Stick is 1 m long, inner and outer width of trackway highlighted. ( b ) D. cuithensis trackway of near-analogous width to the Howick body fossil, Visean Pittenweem Formation, Crail, Fife...
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