Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.2° W: paleocoordinates 1.8° S, 2.5° E)

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Second Abden Shale Formation, Brigantian (336.0 - 330.9 Ma)

• Brigantian age was shown by Brindley and Spinner 1989, Proc. Yorkshire Geol. Soc. 47:215-231

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: transition zone or lower shoreface; lithified, silty, sandy shale

Collection methods: bulk, chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section, sieve,

Primary reference: L. Ferguson. 1962. The paleoecology of a Lower Carboniferous marine transgression. Journal of Paleontology 36:1090-1107 [J. Alroy/M. Sommers/J. Ju]more details

Purpose of describing collection: paleoecologic analysis

PaleoDB collection 6451: authorized by John Alroy, entered by Mike Sommers on 02.03.2000, edited by Pete Wagner

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