Where: Nova Scotia, Canada (45.0° N, 64.0° W: paleocoordinates 16.4° S, 14.1° W)

• coordinate based on political unit

When: Mississippian (358.9 - 323.2 Ma)

Environment/lithology: sandstone

Collection methods: Mr. R. Brown first used the name Millstone Grit in 1844. In 1843, this group was distinctly indicated in Sir W.E. Logan's section of the South Joggins and in Dawson's paper on the Lower Carboniferous Rocks of Eastern Nova Scotia. Dawson provides the following locations as equivalents of the Millstone Grit Series: the Seral Conglomerate of Rogers in Pennsylvania, the Lower Coal Formation Conglomerate and Chester Groups of Illinois, the Lower Carboniferous Sandstone of Kentucky, Alabama, and Virginia, the Millstone Grit and Yoredale Rocks of Northern England, the Culmiferous of Devonshire, the Moor Rock and Lower Coal Measures of Scotland, the Flagstones and Lower Shales of the South of Ireland and Millstone Grit of the North of Ireland, and the Jungste Graywacke of the Hartz, Saxony, and Silesia.

Primary reference: J. W. Dawson. 1873. Report on the Fossil Plants of the Lower Carboniferous and Millstone Grit Formations of Canada. Geological Survey of Canada [R. Gastaldo/J. Allen/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taphonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 13094: authorized by Robert Gastaldo, entered by Jonathan Allen on 21.01.2002

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