Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 2.1° W)
• Paleocoordinates: 30.2° S, 9.7° W (Wright 2013)
When: Ballagan Formation, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siliciclastic sediments
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: permineralized
Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: A. C. Scott, J. Galtier, and G. Clayton. 1984. Distribution of anatomically-preserved floras in the Lower Carboniferous in Western Europe. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 75:311-340 [H. Sims/H. Sims/H. Sims]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 10655: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 08.06.2001, edited by Joseph Flannery-Sutherland
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Taxonomic list
Cladoxylopsida | |
Clepsydropsis antiqua Unger 1856 | |
Eristophyton sp. Zalessky 1911 | |
Lepidocarpaceae | |
Achlamydocarpon scoticum n. sp.2
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Ginkgoopsida | |
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Lyginorachis papilio | |
Lyginorachis papilio Kidston 1923 | |
Eurystoma | |
Lepidocarpon | |
Lepidocarpon sp. Scott 1900 | |
Osteichthyes | |
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