...James O. Buckman; Simon J. Cuthbert; Paul G. Polson Abstract The arthropleurid trackway Diplichnites cuithensis has previously been described from Scotland from the Upper Carboniferous Serpukhovian Limestone Coal Formation on the Isle of Arran and the Lower Carboniferous Visean Pittenweem...

...Fig. 2. Diplichnites cuithensis sesqui-trackways from the Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian; Asbian) Pittenweem Formation of the Kinkell Braes, near St Andrews, Fife [NO530158]. ( a ) Panoramic view of the dipping rock exposure showing the three trackways. ( b ) Map of the panoramic view...

...Fig. 6.— Diplichnites cuithensis trackways on upper surface of Block A, derived from Unit 2. A , B ) Photo and tracing of trackways 1 and 2 traversing wrinkled microbial mat, with rippled area partly covered with modern green algae. C , D ) Photo and tracing of Trackway 1. E , F ) Photo...

... in Arthropleura , and the first instance of a giant arthropleurid body fossil within the same regional sedimentary succession as the large arthropod trackway Diplichnites cuithensis . The remains represent 12–14 anterior Arthropleura tergites in the form of a partially sand-filled dorsal exoskeleton. The original...

...Figure 3 — Diplichnites cuithensis , specimen PC-5. Trackway preserved as convex hyporelief. Note footfall clusters in right series toward top, and gutter cast along left side of trackway. Scale bar is 10 cm. Low angle illumination is from top ...

... Diplichnites based on similarity with D. cuithensis Briggs, Rolfe & Brannan, 1979 , distinguishing the two forms on the basis that D. gouldi has ‘fewer [tracks per series] than D. cuithensis and each [track] lacks the slight transverse element of the Scottish form’. Bradshaw considered that ‘fresh...