Also known as ETE Locality 1605; Dora Opencast Coal Site

Where: England, United Kingdom (56.1° N, 3.3° W: paleocoordinates 0.9° N, 5.1° E)

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Limestone Coal Group, Pendleian (330.9 - 327.0 Ma)

• ETE dating method: time_unit, ETE age comment: . radiometric intage_min

•"lower Namurian A... 62 m beneath the base of the Index Limestone [which is]... at the junction between the top of the Pendleian (E1) and the base of the Arnsbergian (E2) stages": originally entered as Namurian to Bashkirian

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; siltstone

Size class: macrofossils

Collected in 1974 and 1975

• ETE Size: .; ETE reference list: 478, 479, 483, 482, 485, 454, 81, ; ETE museum list:

Primary reference: S. M. Andrews, M. A. E. Browne, A. L. Panchen and S. P. Wood. 1977. Discovery of amphibians in the Namurian (Upper Carboniferous of Fife). Nature 265:529-532 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Uhen]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 22726: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 29.05.2001, edited by John Alroy, Emma Dunne and Sophie Fasey

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