Fair Isles Locality (Devonian of the United Kingdom)

Where: Scotland, United Kingdom (59.5° N, 1.7° W: paleocoordinates 17.6° S, 1.9° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Observatory Group, Givetian (387.7 - 382.7 Ma)

Environment/lithology: marine; sandstone

Size class: microfossils

Preservation: original carbon

Collection methods: quarrying, chemical, sieve,

Primary reference: J. E. A. Marshall and K. C. Allen. 1982. Devonian miospore assemblages from Fair Isle, Shetland. Palaeontology 25(2):277-312 [W. Stein/J. Kao/J. Cassara]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 22794: authorized by Bill Stein, entered by Jenny Kao on 26.06.2002

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

unclassified
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Retusotriletes
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Pteridopsida
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Polypodiopsida
 Schizaeales - Polypodiidae
Emphanisporites
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Emphanisporites rotatus Macgregor 1973
spores
Sphenopsida
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