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)

• Occurs at the center of the most disrupted strata. Occupies a mini-graben bounded by two parallel SW-NE oriented faults. Sediments produce a pseudochannel. Grading is common.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lacustrine - large; graded, bioturbated, pyritic, gray siltstone and graded sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, charcoalification

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

• Occurence data are 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 10674: authorized by Hallie Sims, entered by Jonathan Allen on 11.06.2001

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