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East Kirkton Quarry

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East Kirkton Quarry in West Lothian in Scotland 1
East Kirkton Quarry in West Lothian in Scotland 1

East Kirkton Quarry is a former limestone quarry in West Lothian, Scotland (East Kirkton Limestone), now better known as a fossil site known for terrestrial fossils from the fossil-poor Romer's gap, a 15 million year period at the beginning of the Carboniferous. The rocks and fossils are of Visean age, about 335 million years old. Best known are the labyrinthodont fossils, as the period coincides with the time where the modern lineages of tetrapods are thought to have evolved.

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East Kirkton Quarry
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