Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 2.3° W: paleocoordinates 10.4° S, 1.3° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Cementstone Group, Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• The plants are therefore of late Corceyan (Tn3) age.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: limestone and lime mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, charcoalification, replaced with calcite

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), peel or thin section,

• abundant ostracod microfauna

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 10657: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 08.06.2001, edited by Alistair McGowan

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