caa a22 4500 386384835 CHVBK 20180307112055.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0263593300012232 doi S0263593300012232 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0263593300012232 Shrimp-bearing sedimentary successions in the Lower Carboniferous (Dinantian) Cementstone and Oil Shale Groups of northern Britain [Elektronische Daten] The Lower Carboniferous of northern Britain is dominated by non-marine sequences which yield fish and crustacean faunas. These are rarely preserved and occur in thin layers. The sedimentology of twelve shrimp-bearing localities is described, in most cases for the first time, to shed light upon the habitats occupied by eumalacostracan crustaceans during their early Carboniferous adaptive radiation. Nearly all these sequences were deposited in coastal delta-plain settings or in interdistributary bays, environments of transitional salinity. The Gullane shrimp bed, however, was laid down in a thermally stratified non-marine lake, and its sole crustacean representative, Tealliocaris, seems to have been generally confined to waters of low salinity. None of the shrimp-beds was deposited in a fully marine environment, though most show evidence of at least some marine influence. Crustacean diversity increases with salinity, and the lack of shrimps in fully marine sediments is largely due to taphonomic factors rather than an environmental control. Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1989 Carboniferous nationallicence crustacean nationallicence environment nationallicence salinity nationallicence Cater J. M. L. J. M. L. Cater, Earth Sciences and Resources Institute, University of Bristol, 86 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, U.K. Briggs D. E. G. D. E. G. Briggs, Department of Geology, University of Bristol, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, U.K. Clarkson E. N. K. E. N. K. Clarkson, Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, Scotland, U.K. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences Royal Society of Edinburgh Scotland Foundation 80/1(1989), 5-15 0263-5933 80:1<5 1989 80 TRE https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263593300012232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263593300012232 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cater J. M. L. J. M. L. Cater, Earth Sciences and Resources Institute, University of Bristol, 86 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Briggs D. E. G. D. E. G. Briggs, Department of Geology, University of Bristol, Queen's Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Clarkson E. N. K. E. N. K. Clarkson, Grant Institute of Geology, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JW, Scotland, U.K NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences Royal Society of Edinburgh Scotland Foundation 80/1(1989), 5-15 0263-5933 80:1<5 1989 80 TRE CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge