Kelly Den, Arbirlot, Angus (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.0° N, 2.0° W: paleocoordinates 21.7° S, 9.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: micrornatus-newportensis spore zone other zone, Dundee Flagstone Formation (Arbuthnott-Garvock Group), Lochkovian (419.2 - 410.8 Ma)

• more details in Edwards 1990

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; gray sandstone

• It is stated that the rock and type of preservation is similar to those at Aberlemno Quarry.
• Grey, fine-grained sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: cast, adpression, original carbon

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical,

• Collected in 1908 by G. Hickling and deposited at Manchester Museum.

Primary reference: D. Edwards. 1972. A Zosterophyllum fructification from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of Scotland. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 14:77-83 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10705: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 13.06.2001

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Zosterophyllum
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