The mid-Palaeozoic biotic crisis: setting the trajectory of tetrapod evolution. Coquetdale, Coldstream and Whitrope Burn, Northern England and the Scottish Borders. (NERC grant NE/J020729/1)

The data set consists of rock samples collected from Coquetdale, Coldstream and Whitrope Burn from 2013-2014; milled material is included. There is an Excel spreadsheet of sample numbers with location, sample height on log, d13C data and %C. There are scans of field logs from Coquetdale, Coldstream and Whitrope Burn, and Illustrator drawn logs from Coldstream which include samples collected at a later date. Scans of thin sections are also included. (thin sections to be kept at Leicester for the time being – still being worked on for papers.) Each locality folder has an Excel spreadsheet detailing samples, sample height, %C and bulk and specific d13C values. These data were used to interpret the environment in which early tetrapods have been found in the early Carboniferous. These data supported the MPhil thesis 'In an alternating marine and non-marine depositional setting, where and how are early Carboniferous tetrapods preserved?' by Sherwin, 2018, and one publication including data from Whitrope Burn - Richards et al., 2018, (https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691018000166).

Date (Creation): 2018-10-02

Identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607388

Principal investigator

University of Leicester - Professor Sarah Davies ( Department of Geology )

Leicester , LE1 7RH ,

Point of contact

University of Leicester - Janet Sherwin ( School of Geography, Geology and the Environment )

Bennett Building, University Road , Leicester , LE1 7RH ,

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

NGDC Deposited Data
Carbon isotopes
Carboniferous
Palaeoenvironment
Stable isotopes
Micropalaeontology
Sedimentary geology

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 2013-05-02

End date: 2016-12-31

Supplemental Information: TW:eed project (Tetrapod World: early evolution and diversification)

Unique resource identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)

Distribution format

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MS Excel ()

OnLine resource: http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item120269

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Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF

Pass: No

Statement: Samples were collected from the field and location of each noted. Thin sections were made of many of the samples. Small amounts of many samples were crushed, milled and assessed for C and S content on a LECO machine. Suitable samples were then analysed for d13C values. Fossils were identified in some laminae.