Roskilie Bay 2, Fair Isle (Devonian to of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (59.5° N, 1.6° W: paleocoordinates 21.9° S, 1.4° W)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Upper Argillite unit Member (Furse Argillaceous Beds Formation), Early/Lower Devonian to Early/Lower Devonian (419.2 - 382.7 Ma)

• Age given is largely based on the plants reported. Higher in the section than Roskilie Bay 1.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: lithified sandstone

• Mykura favors the deposition of the plant-bearing beds as having occurred under lacustrine conditions... The Observatory Group Sandstones have been """"channel deposits of streams or fans close to the lake margin"""".

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: permineralized, replaced with limonite

Collection methods: chemical,

Primary reference: W. G. Chaloner. 1972. Devonian plants from Fair Isle, Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 14:49-61 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10695: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 13.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• spores from Fair Isle were described in Palaeontology 25: 277-312
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Psilophytopsida
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Dawsonites roskiliensis n. sp.
Dawsonites roskiliensis n. sp.
syntype with specimen from 10692