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2023

Journal article

The geological and historical milieu of an ornamental cephalopod limestone (‘orthoceratite limestone’, Ordovician, Sweden) used in the Clerk Mausoleum (1684), St Mungo's Kirkyard, Penicuik, Scotland

A slab of cephalopod limestone bears a dedicatory Latin inscription on the mausoleum built around 1684 by Sir John Clerk of Penicuik (1649–1722) for his wife Elizabeth Henderson (1658–83) at St Mungo's Church, Penicuik, near Edinburgh, Scotland. The stone is identified on sedimentological and palaeontological evidence and historical context as...

Taylor, Michael A ; McMillan, Andrew A ; Stewart, Sarah E ; Anderson, Lyall I
orthoceratite limestone, sedimentological and palaeontological evidence, Sweden, Elizabeth Henderson, Penicuik mausoleum, and cephalopod limestone
2015

Journal article

Sphenothallus from the Furongian (Cambrian) of Scandanavia

Sphenothallus, a Palaeozoic genus of uncertain affinity, possibly a hydrozoan, is reported from the Furongian (Cambrian) of Scandinavia. This is the only known occurrence of the genus in Cambrian rocks outside of China, western North America and Bohemia, and also the first report of Sphenothallus in the Cambrian–Ordovician of Baltica....

Stewart, Sarah E ; Clarkson, Euan Neilson Kerr ; Ahlgren, John ; Ahlgren, Per ; Schoenemann, Brigitte
Sweden, Furongian, Sphenothallus, Cambrian, Alum Shale Formation, and Västergötland