Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (57.3° N, 2.9° W: paleocoordinates 22.4° S, 6.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Dryden Flags Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)

• The Rhynie and Windyfield cherts found at Rhynie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, both occurring in the Dryden Flags Formation (Rice et al. 2002), represent the surface expression of a metaliferous hydrothermal system that was active in the Rhynie area during the early Devonian (Pragian: Rice et al. 1995, 2002).

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: pond; lithified, stromatolitic, black, blue chert

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils, microfossils

Preservation: permineralized, original carbon, replaced with silica

Collected by Tait in 1912

Collection methods: core, quarrying, peel or thin section,

• Repository: Hunterian Museum (some specimens at Geological Collections of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery - BRSGM). Material prepared by Walter Hemingway.

Primary reference: R. Kidston and W. H. Lang. 1917. On Old Red Sandstone plants showing structure, from the Rhynie Chert Bed, Aberdeenshire. Part I. Rhynia gwynne-vaughanii, Kidston and Lang. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 51:761-784 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 10721: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 18.06.2001, edited by Matthew Clapham

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