Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (55.8° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 15.8° S, 20.8° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Spirograptus turriculatus graptolite zone, Gutterford Burn Flagstones Member (Reservoir Formation), Telychian (438.5 - 433.4 Ma)

• PJW: Eurypterid Bed is part of Gutterford Burn Flagstones.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: offshore; lithified, brown, yellow, argillaceous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: adpression

Collected by Hardie

• Repository: Royal Scottish Museum (classic 1880s arthropod collection yielding many eurypterids)

Primary reference: M. Laurie. 1899. On a Silurian scorpion and some additional eurypterid remains from the Pentland Hills. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 39:575-590 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 153581: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 28.12.2013, edited by Pete Wagner

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