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Geological Society, London, Memoirs; 1962; v. 3; p. 255-265;
DOI: 10.1144/GSL.MEM.1962.003.01.04
© 1962 Geological Society of London

IX-XII. FOSSIL LOCALITIES, FAUNAL LISTS & INDEX OF BRACHIOPOD GENERA AND SPECIES

Excerpt: Fossil collections have been obtained from a large number of localities in the Girvan area. Most of them have been referred to in the text, but those described below are localities from which figured material and types have been obtained.

  1. (a) AUCHENSOUL LIMESTONE AND CONFINIS FLAGS
  2. (1) Red mudstones and limestone breccias exposed on the south bank of the River Stinchar, 100 yards east of the bridge leading to Auchensoul Farm, 1i88 miles out of Barr on the Pinmore road (Auchensoul Limestone and Mudstones, Auchensoul Bridge).
  3. (2) Brown- and yellow-weathering calcareous confinis siltstones exposed on the hillside, 100 yards west of Struit Well, 300 yards west-north-west of Kirkdominae ruins on the north side of the Stinchar Valley, 1i89 miles west of Barr (confinis Flags, Kirkdominae Hill).
  4. (3) Brown-weathering calcareous confinis siltstones exposed in the bank of the pathway leading from the old limekiln to the quarry excavated in Stinchar Limestone, 450 yards west-south-west of Minuntion Farm on the north side of the River Stinchar and about 1i89 miles north-east of Pinmore bridge (confinis Flags, Minuntion).
  5. (4) Yellow-weathering, pebbly siltstones and impure nodular limestones transitional from confinis Flags to Stinchar Limestone, exposed on the eastern side of the water-filled quarry 300 yards south-west of Bougang Farm, 3 miles east of Ballantrae on the ColmoneU road (top of the confinis Flags, Bougang).
  6. (b) STINCHAR LIMESTONES AND SUPERSTES MUDSTONES (1) Mudstones with nodular limestones exposed on the north bank of the Water of Gregg, half a mile east of its junction with the