Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.4° N, 5.6° W: paleocoordinates 18.9° S, 16.5° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Ludfordian (425.6 - 423.0 Ma)
• Section contains ash beds dated radiometrically as 426.5 +/- 4.5 Ma and 425.4 +/- 4.8 Ma (Brookfield et al., 2020).
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithified shale
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: Repository: Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh
Primary reference: B. N. Peach. 1899. On some new myriapods from the Palaeozoic rocks of Scotland. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh 14:113-126 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 195125: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 21.07.2018
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Kampecaris obanensis | |
Kampecaris obanensis n. sp.
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