Westlothiana
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Westlothiana is a genus of reptile-like tetrapods that lived about 341 million years ago during the latest part of the Viséan age of the Carboniferous. The genus is known from a single species, Westlo
Westlothiana lizziae type fossil
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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
Westlothiana
…lizziae. It is among the oldest known uncontroversial tetrapods, closely related to but not an amniote. The type specimen was discovered in the East Kirkton Limestone at the East Kirkton Quarry, West Lothian, Scotland in 1984. In a study published in 2025 it was suggested that the specimen is around 341 million years…
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