Where: England, United Kingdom (52.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 24.3° S, 11.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: lower tripapillatus-spicula Miospore Assemblage subzone zone, Rushall Beds Member (Downton Castle Sandstone Formation), Pridoli (423.0 - 419.2 Ma)

• Pridoli age based on ostracodes and spores (Fanning et al., 1988)

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: green sandstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, coalified, original carbon, original sporopollenin

Collection methods: Paleobotanical collections made on more than one occasion by more than one collector. This reflects Lang's original account

Primary reference: W. H. Lang. 1937. On the plant-remains from the Downtonian of England and Wales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 227B:245-291 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10593: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 27.05.2001

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