Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (56.3° N, 4.2° W: paleocoordinates 25.6° S, 0.4° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Strathmore Formation (Lower Old Red Sandstone Group), Emsian (407.6 - 393.3 Ma)

• the top of the Strathmore group has been dated to the lower to middle Emsian using spores. It is 2000m thick.

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray sandstone and lithified, green mudstone

Size classes: macrofossils, microfossils

Preservation: adpression, permineralized, coalified, original carbon, replaced with pyrite

Collection methods: chemical, mechanical, peel or thin section,

• See Henderson 1932; Lang 1932; Edwards, Edwards & Rayner 1982; Rayner 1982; Rayner 1983; Rayner 1984.

Primary reference: S. M. K. Henderson. 1932. Notes on Lower Old Red Sandstone plants from Callander, Perthsire. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 57:277-285 [P. Gensel/M. Kotyk]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 11513: authorized by Pat Gensel, entered by Michele Kotyk on 17.08.2001, edited by Pat Gensel

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