Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 10.3° S, 1.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: CM palynozone zone, Sunnyside/Rhodes Limestone Member (Garlton Hills Volcanics Formation), Tournaisian (358.9 - 346.7 Ma)

• The large number of tuffs may provide absolute ages. Palynozone scheme based on miospores

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "channel"; lenticular, graded, tuffaceous, green siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, recrystallized, permineralized, replaced with calcite, replaced with dolomite, replaced with pyrite

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

• Occurence data from reference #3954

Primary reference: R. M. Bateman and A.C. Scott. 1990. A reappraisal of the Dinantian floras at Oxroad Bay, East Lothian, Scotland. 2. Volcanicity, palaeoenvironments and palaeoecology. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 81:161-194 [H. Sims/J. Allen/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10671: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 10.06.2001, edited by Jason Cassara

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