East Kirkton Quarry
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East Kirkton Quarry, or simply East Kirkton, is a former limestone quarry in West Lothian, Scotland, now a renowned fossil site. The quarry is known for terrestrial and freshwater animal fossils; the
An overgrown limestone outcrop at East Kirkton, 2013
Scottish geologists searching for fossils in the spoil heaps of East Kirkton, 1987
freehand field-sketch of East Kirkton Quarry, August 1983 showing outcrop transects of field work
A slumping feature in an outcrop of the East Kirkton Limestone
Myriapoda
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Myriapods are the members of subphylum Myriapoda, containing arthropods such as millipedes and centipedes. The group contains about 13,000 species, all of them terrestrial.
East Kirkton Quarry
…with the exception of two isolated combs assigned to Cyrtoctenus and isolated femur assigned to cf. Dunsopterus, which may represent synonymous taxa. Myriapoda Unnamed East Kirkton Limestone (Units 47-82) Multiple specimens, six of which are complete enough to describe At least three species of many-legged…
The head of Scutigera coleoptrata, showing antennae, compound eyes and mouthparts
Scolopendra cingulata, a centipede
Tachypodoiulus niger, a millipede
A species of Scutigerella, a genus of symphylan