Where: Wales, United Kingdom (51.8° N, 3.0° W: paleocoordinates 27.7° S, 4.3° W)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Senni bed Formation, Pragian (410.8 - 407.6 Ma)
• Age is based on plant macro- and microfossils. Equivalent to Brownstone Group (Cleal & Thomas, 1995)
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: lithified, red sandstone and lithified, red mudstone
Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils
Preservation: adpression, permineralized, coalified, original carbon, original sporopollenin, replaced with limonite
Collection methods: peel or thin section,
Primary reference: W. N. Croft and W. H. Lang. 1942. The Lower Devonian flora of the Senni Beds of Monmouthsire and Breconshire. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of Britain 221:131-163 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details
Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis
PaleoDB collection 11083: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 12.07.2001, edited by Pat Gensel
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Prototaxites | |
Sciadophyton | |
Drepanophycus spinaeformis | |
Drepanophycus spinaeformis Goeppert 1852 | |
Psilophytopsida | |
Gosslingia breconensis Heard 1927 | |
Dawsonites arcuatus Halle 1916 | |
Taeniocrada | |
Taeniocrada sp. White 1902 | |
Zosterophyllum | |
Nematothallus | |
Nematothallus sp. Lang 1937 | |
Retusotriletes | |
Retusotriletes spp.3 Naumova 1953 | |
Sporogonites exuberans | |
Sporogonites exuberans Halle 1916 | |
Emphanisporites | |
Emphanisporites cf. rotatus3 Macgregor 1973 | |
Dictyotriletes | |
Dictyotriletes sp.3 Naumova 1950 | |
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Apiculiretusispora | |